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Pablo Peña on why AI is No Match for Human Capital

PABLO PENA

December 2, 2025

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While artificial intelligence continues to outperform our human abilities in many areas, Pablo Peña believes critical thinking and curiosity are what will keep us in the driver’s seat. AI can only draw on human-produced knowledge, Peña says, “The version of AI that we know now is only a sophisticated remix of what we know already.” Peña is an associate professor of economics at the University of Chicago and author of Human Capital for Humans: An Accessible Introduction to the Economic Science of People. In this Podcast, Peña and journalist Rhoda Metcalfe discuss his article in the December issue of Finance & Development magazine. Transcript

PABLO PENA is an associate instructional professor in the University of Chicago’s economics department.

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