SHOULD WE FEAR AI? Philippe Aghion, 2025 Nobel Prize laureate in economics

“SHOULD WE FEAR AI?” is an online seminar featuring Philippe Aghion, 2025 Nobel Prize laureate in Economics and Professor at the Collège de France and the London School of Economics.

The seminar will open with an introduction by Marco Paggi, Deputy Rector and Professor of Structural Mechanics at IMT School, and Massimo Riccaboni, Director of the Economics, Management, and Statistics multidisciplinary scientific area at IMT School.

We shall look at the growth and employment effects of AI. We will first argue that AI has a considerable growth potential, but that appropriate competition and industrial policies are required to harness this power. Then we will look at the employment effects of AI and argue that AI does not seem to have an overall damaging effect on aggregate employment, even though appropriate education and labor market policies should be put in place to enhance the employment creation effect of AI.

The online event will take place on Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025, at 2:00 pm (CET).

The seminar is open to the external public by subscribing to this form until December 2nd, 2.00 pm.