Nobel laureate Simon Johnson on the AI race and China’s ‘over-automation’ problem

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Nobel laureate Simon Johnson, appointed chair of the UK's AI Economics Institute, discusses the AI race and China’s challenges with 'over-automation'. Johnson highlighted institutional impacts on national prosperity during an interview at a Hong Kong investment conference.

Simon Johnson is a professor of entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). A former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), he won a joint Nobel Prize for economics in 2024 for his research into how institutions shape national prosperity. On June 8, the British government announced Johnson as chair of its new AI Economics Institute. In this interview, conducted on the sidelines of the UBS Asian Investment Conference in Hong Kong, Johnson discussed the...