More than 200 economists and AI researchers including 16 Nobel Prize winners and senior figures at Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind released a joint statement on Monday calling on governments and technology leaders to prepare immediately for an AI-driven economic transformation that could exceed the Industrial Revolution in scale while unfolding in a fraction of the time. The four-sentence statement, titled “We Must Act Now,” was organized through Stanford University’s Digital Economy Lab and arrives