Premises and Limits of AGI Economic Growth Predictions
RyanGreenblatt · x · 2026-07-15
The author adds caveats to their view that "AGI surpassing human cognition will drive extreme economic growth": First, highly stringent regulations could temporarily halt this growth, though they expect this is unlikely to happen; Second, it assumes the existence of an AI population vastly exceeding the millions, operating at acceptable speeds.
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