Economists: AI could transform society yet show only 4-5% GDP growth
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-12
Alex Olegimas clarifies his widely-shared post: it does NOT argue "nothing much will change." Rather, the economy could become almost unrecognizable—cures for major diseases, exploding agentic transactions, massive agent-to-agent marketplaces—while measured GDP growth stays at "only" 4-5%, purely due to how GDP is calculated. Even that implies doubling living standards in 15 years. Economists Ben Moll and Peter Nurse amplified the clarification, noting many people wrongly see these beliefs as inconsistent.
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