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Tom Davidson Could advanced AI drive explosive economic growth? online This report evaluates the likelihood of ‘explosive growth’, meaning \textgreater 30% annual growth of gross world product (GWP), occurring by 2100. Although frontier GDP/capita growth has been constant for 150 years, over the last 10,000 years GWP growth has accelerated significantly. Endogenous growth theory, together with the empirical fact of the demographic transition, can explain […]

Could advanced AI drive explosive economic growth?

Tom Davidson

Open Philanthropy, June 21, 2021

Abstract

This report evaluates the likelihood of ‘explosive growth’, meaning \textgreater 30% annual growth of gross world product (GWP), occurring by 2100. Although frontier GDP/capita growth has been constant for 150 years, over the last 10,000 years GWP growth has accelerated significantly. Endogenous growth theory, together with the empirical fact of the demographic transition, can explain […]

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