Anton Korinek

Anton Korinek joined the Peterson Institute for International Economics as a nonresident senior fellow in 2026. His research analyzes how transformative advances in artificial intelligence (AI) affect the economy and society, investigating AI's implications for economic growth, labor markets, inequality, and market concentration. He focuses on how to steer progress in AI to lead to shared prosperity and how to prepare society for its transformative potential.

Korinek is a professor of economics at the University of Virginia and serves as faculty director of the Economics of Transformative AI (EconTAI) Initiative. He was named to TIME's 2025 TIME100 AI list of the most influential people in artificial intelligence and Vox's 2024 Future Perfect 50. He serves on the Anthropic Economic Advisory Council and was a member of a G7 High-Level Panel of Experts on AI. He has testified before the US Senate on AI's impact on the workforce.

He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow and leader of the AI Research Network at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a fellow at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. He edited the Oxford Handbook of AI Governance and teaches "The Economics of AI" on Coursera. His semiannual article series "Generative AI for Economic Research" in the Journal of Economic Literature examines how researchers can leverage AI tools. His earlier work developed influential frameworks for financial crisis prevention in emerging economies.

Korinek received his PhD in economics from Columbia University in 2007. Prior to his current position, he held positions at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland, and visiting appointments at Harvard University, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Bank for International Settlements.