Betsey Stevenson on AGI will create abundance

Betsey Stevenson

Labor economist and professor of public policy and economics at the University of Michigan; former member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

The promise of artificial general intelligence is that it will provide unprecedented productivity gains that could allow all of humanity to achieve a standard of living greater than that experienced by those in the wealthiest nations.

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Betsey Stevenson, “What Is There to Fear in a Post-AGI World?”, National Bureau of Economic Research, published September 2026. The single-author chapter discusses AGI’s potential productivity gains, abundance, and labor-market effects.

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