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The ability to shape AI preferences could dramatically alter firm structure, and might eliminate principal-agent problems caused by misaligned worker, manager, firm, and shareholder incentives.
Unidentified speaker · AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu · 17 Apr 2025
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“dramatically changing basic problems that determine the structure of human firms like for example the principal agent problem might go away like this problem where the you as a worker have incentives that are either different from those of your manager or those of the entire firm or those of the shareholders of the firm”Play from 2:52:11Report a misattribution
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