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Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu said: "The promise of technology was to create opportunities for all, but what we have is a single system that concentrates power and wealth."

Research scientist Ranjan Pal and co-authors wrote: "The most creative and technically innovative employees choose roles in software development for products whose value is of most importance to venture capitalists and enterprise shareholders. The relatively less innovative and coding-competent employees are put in cybersecurity roles and are paid comparatively less."

Professor Andrew W. Lo said: "We're working on an AI financial advisor that can satisfy the most important criterion of financial advice that regulators impose, fiduciary duty. A fiduciary is somebody who is appointed to help you further your goals and will look out for your best interests above and beyond their own."

Professor Emerita Lotte Bailyn said: "Child care is absolutely necessary if parents need or want to have employment. Child care workers must be paid well in order to attract the people needed for high quality, and parents cannot pay more for child care than they earn. That means a simple private business model does not work."