AI 'Dark Forest' Could Slow Knowledge Accumulation, Economic Model Suggests
erikphoel · x · 2026-09-10
Brian R. Gordon argues that an AI 'dark forest'—a closed, opaque knowledge environment—differs fundamentally from an open intellectual commons. Such walled-off work will slow the cumulative advance of intellectual and cultural output, impacting both the flow and stock of knowledge in a Romer-type endogenous growth model.
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