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AK or just okay? AI and economic growth

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After a typically dark and damp winter in Oxford focused on every sane economist’s least favorite of topics — business cycles — the last two months have treated my vampiric flesh with feeling the sun and feeling the AGI. In concreto, I attended the Stripe “Economics of AI fellowship” conference in SF and then helped teach a two-week “Economics of Transformative AI” summer course in Palo Alto. While I’m still feeling the afterglow of the ultraviolet therapy I figured I’d write up some brief thoughts on how I see the current state of affairs: can AI continue scaling at such a rapid pace, and if it does, what sort of growth impacts from AI should the world expect? I don’t have a blistering take to light the discourse with — instead, a few simple points and a beyond the doctor’s daily recommended dose of uncertainty which I hope will equally aggravate the AGI-pilled and the AGI-skeptics amongst us. Thanks for reading A Zibaldone! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

After a typically dark and damp winter in Oxford focused on every sane economist’s least favorite of topics — business cycles — the last two months have treated my vampiric flesh with feeling the sun and feeling the AGI. In concreto, I attended the Stripe “Economics of AI fellowship” conference in SF and then helped teach a two-week “Economics of Transformative AI” summer course in Palo Alto. While I’m still feeling the afterglow of the ultraviolet therapy I figured I’d write up some brief thoughts on how I see the current state of affairs: can AI continue scaling at such a rapid pace, and…

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