AI as our Guttenberg moment: Moritz Schularick, the President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, on the economic significance of today's AI revolution


Author: Andrew Keen September 7, 2023 Duration: 21:04
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AI as our Guttenberg moment: Moritz Schularick, the President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, on the economic significance of today's AI revolution

EPISODE 1695: In this special episode of KEEN ON from the DLD AI Summit in Munich, Andrew talks to Moritz Schularick, the President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, about the historic economic significance of today's AI revolution


Moritz Schularick has been President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and Professor of Economics at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel since June 2023. His research focuses, among other things, on financial markets and asset prices, questions of monetary macroeconomics and the causes of financial crises and economic inequality. Before his appointment to Kiel, Moritz Schularick was professor of macroeconomics at the University of Bonn, director of the MacroFinance Lab there and professor at Sciences Po (Paris). He is also a member of the ECONtribute excellence cluster and a full member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Academia Europea. During his academic career, he conducted research at, among others, New York University, the University of Cambridge, the Free University of Berlin and in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Moritz Schularick is the winner of the Leibniz Prize 2022, Germany's most important research prize, awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). In 2018 he received the Gossen Prize from the Association for Social Politics, the most important award given by German economists. He is editor of the most important European economic policy journal, “Economic Policy”. He regularly advises central banks, finance ministries, investors and international organizations.


Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.



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