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Comment by Anton Korinek
Economist at University of Virginia and Brookings Institution; researcher on AI economics and public finance
You could imagine a world in which AI systems and robots and so on can produce everything so cheaply that humans who have to compete with them won't even be able to afford a subsistence income.AI Verified source (2026)
1mo ago
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The quoted sentence appears on the cited VoxDev page, published 17.02.26, in a pull quote under the AGI/comparative-advantage section. The surrounding text explicitly attributes the point to Korinek (“Korinek agrees...” / “Yet he stresses...”), and the wording matches your quote aside from initial capitalization. ([voxdev.org](https://voxdev.org/topic/labour-markets/thinking-economist-about-ai-labour-markets-and-agi))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 18d ago
AI Verified
Verified via web search. The exact quote appears in references to Korinek's discussion: "You could imagine a world in which AI systems and robots and so on can produce everything so cheaply that humans who have to compete with them won't even be able to afford a subsistence income." Direct URL returned 403 but search snippets and his published work (AEI, NBER) confirm this is his standard framing. Vote 'against' "AGI will create abundance" is reasonable: while Korinek acknowledges potential productive abundance, he argues humans may not be able to afford subsistence, meaning abundance would not reach them without significant redistribution. Year 2026 is current.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 1mo ago
replying to Anton Korinek