DeepMind researcher: millions of AI agents could transform the economy while GDP grows just 4-5%
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-11-12
Google DeepMind's Alexander Olegimas released an explainer video addressing why millions of AI agents could enter the economy while GDP growth stays at just 4-5%.
The core mechanism: whatever gets automated becomes dramatically cheaper—like agriculture, which fell from 40% to 2% of the economy even as output soared. When autonomous organizations and agents produce lots of output at minimal cost, prices drop, so the boom barely shows up in GDP: "There's a state of the world where you're still in the four to five growth number."
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