Comment by Daron Acemoglu

Nobel laureate economist; MIT Institute Professor; author of Power and Progress
AI will accelerate automation. It is currently conceived as an automation technology, as best illustrated by the AGI loadstar, because what AGI means is that AI models will reach expertise equivalent to the very best, perhaps top 1% of workers in pretty much all activities, which means that they will take over pretty much all jobs.
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AGI will create abundance

AGI is generally understood as an AI system that can match or exceed human capabilities on most economically valuable tasks. In such a world, the automation of work would not be limited to specific industries or routine jobs. Instead, machines would ...
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