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Scott Alexander
Author and psychiatrist

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If AI doesn't kill us, and there's no permanent dictatorship, and there's no permanent underclass, then we get a post-scarcity society, plus superintelligent AIs that we can set to working on other problems like disease and social decay.
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Mark Zuckerberg
Meta CEO; Facebook co-founder

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In the AI era, it should be easier than ever for people to build new businesses. [...] This is important for ensuring that people broadly share in the prosperity created by superintelligence.
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Bill Gates
Philanthropist. Founder and former CEO of Microsoft.

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There is no upper limit on how intelligent AIs will get or on how good robots will get, and I believe the advances will not plateau before exceeding human levels. [...] AI capabilities will allow us to make far more goods and services with less labor...
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Reid Hoffman
LinkedIn co-founder, venture capitalist, author of Superagency

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All of us within a small number of years will have a medical assistant that's essentially free to operate. [The same will apply to legal and educational assistants, bringing] substantial quality for free for everyone in society.
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Sundar Pichai
CEO of Google and Alphabet

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AI is the most profound platform shift of our lifetime. [...] We are on the cusp of hyper progress and new discoveries that can help emerging economies leapfrog legacy gaps. [...] We have the opportunity to improve lives at a once-in-generation scale...
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Jensen Huang
Nvidia cofounder and CEO

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AI is likely to close the technology divide, because it is so easy to use and so abundant and so accessible. [...] I'm optimistic about the potential of AI to lift the countries that are emerging. [...] We need to make sure that the average pensioner...
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Dario Amodei
CEO at Anthropic

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I don’t know exactly when it’ll come, I don’t know if it’ll be 2027. I think it’s plausible it could be longer than that. I don’t think it will be a whole bunch longer than that when AI systems are better than humans at almost everything. Better than...
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Masayoshi Son
SoftBank founder and CEO

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AGI is coming very, very soon. [...] This is the beginning of our golden age.
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Demis Hassabis
Nobel laureate, AI Researcher and CEO of DeepMind

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Assuming we steward it safely and responsibly into the world, and obviously we’re trying to play our part in that, then we should be in a world of what I sometimes call radical abundance. [...] It should lead to incredible productivity and therefore ...
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Ben Southwood
AI economist and commentator

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Because post-superintelligence abundance will be so great, agreements to share power and benefits should strongly be in the leader’s national self-interest: as we noted in the section on abundance, having only 80% of a very large pie is much more des...
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Vinod Khosla
Venture capitalist; Khosla Ventures founder

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Artificial intelligence is different. It's past the point where a difference in degree becomes a difference in kind. AI amplifies and multiplies the human brain, much like steam engines once amplified muscle power. Before engines, we consumed food fo...
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Nick Bostrom
Philosopher; 'Superintelligence' author; FHI founder

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the right economic policies would inaugurate an age of abundance.
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Elon Musk
Founder of SpaceX, cofounder of Tesla, SolarCity & PayPal

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But if you have ubiquitous AI that is essentially free or close to it and ubiquitous robotics, then you will have an explosion in the global economy, an expansion in the global economy that is truly beyond all precedent. [...] The robots will actuall...
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Mo Gawdat
Ex-Google X business chief, author

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Intelligence is what got us here. There’s absolutely nothing inherently wrong with intelligence, and an abundance of intelligence would solve all problems. Some of you may have heard me with Rebecca talking about sustainability, right? With enough in...
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Mustafa Suleyman
Microsoft AI CEO; author

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I honestly believe we are approaching an era of radical abundance. We are about to distill the essence of what makes us capable — our intelligence — into a piece of software, which can get cheaper, easier to use, more widely available to everybody. A...
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Satya Nadella
Microsoft CEO

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I'm much more focused on the benefits to all of us. I am haunted by the fact that the industrial revolution didn't touch the parts of the world where I grew up until much later. So I am looking for the thing that may be even bigger than the industria...
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Peter H. Diamandis
XPRIZE founder; entrepreneur; futurist author

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While many are fearful of AI, there are some (including myself) who believe that beyond the AI Singularity lies an incredible world of abundance. As detailed in Abundance: The Future is Better Than you Think (2012), exponential technologies have the...
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Marc Andreessen
General Partner at a16z (VC), co-founder of Netscape

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It would mean a takeoff rate of economic productivity growth that would be absolutely stratospheric, far beyond any historical precedent. Prices of existing goods and services would drop across the board to virtually zero. Consumer welfare would skyr...
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Sam Altman
CEO at OpenAI

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If AGI is successfully created, this technology could help us elevate humanity by increasing abundance, turbocharging the global economy, and aiding in the discovery of new scientific knowledge that changes the limits of possibility. AGI has the pote...
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Ray Kurzweil
Author, computer scientist, inventor and futurist

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In my view, we are going to achieve this goal instead through the combination of a free economic system with the emerging technologies of the twenty-first century. For example, by the 2030s, renewable energy technologies such as solar power will pro...
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Ben Goertzel
SingularityNET founder; AGI researcher

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Situated in this specific species, place, and time, I care a lot about the condition of all of us humans, and so I would like to not only create a powerful general intelligence, but create one which is [...] going to be beneficial to humans and other...
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Erik Brynjolfsson
Economist, AI & productivity scholar

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Welcome to the economics of abundance.
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Calum Chace
Futurist author and speaker

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The economic singularity can liberate us from wage slavery, and spark a second renaissance. But we will need a different form of capitalism – fully automated luxury capitalism – to achieve the economy of abundance. The technological singularity is w...
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Yanis Varoufakis
Former finance minister of Greece, is Professor of Economics at the University of Athens

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Technologies that could free us from drudgery, poverty and environmental collapse instead make life worse for most people in most countries.
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Pope Leo XIV
Head of the Catholic Church

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To think that new technologies will automatically benefit everyone is to ignore the evidence. (Magnifica humanitas, §161)
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Joseph Stiglitz
Nobel laureate economist based at Columbia University

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Unfortunately, the tech bros, who are obviously advocates of this, are at the same time pushing for smaller government, which will undermine the ability of the government to do exactly what is needed in order to make a successful transition.
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Robert Reich
Former Secretary of Labor

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Rather than creating an age of abundance in which most people no longer have to worry about money, new technologies have contributed to a two-tiered society comprising a relatively few with extraordinary wealth and a vast number of people barely maki...
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Anton Korinek
Economist at University of Virginia and Brookings Institution; researcher on AI economics and public finance

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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.
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Yann LeCun
Computer scientist, AI researcher

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I do not believe there's going to be like a singular, identifiable point where the economy is going to take off, and there's going to be abundance. [Whether AI's benefits are widely shared] is a political question, has nothing to do with technology.
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Carl Benedikt Frey
Associate Professor of AI & Work at the Oxford Internet Institute; Director of the Future of Work Program at the Oxford Martin School; author of The Technology Trap and How Progress Ends

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For the last-invention story to hold, people would have to become unnecessary even as partners or supervisors to AIs. [...] We would need a world where practical know-how is fully transferable through digital channels and where responsibility can be ...
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Milton Mueller
Professor at Georgia Tech School of Public Policy; internet governance scholar and co-founder of the Internet Governance Project

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Tech CEOs, futurists, and venture capitalists describe artificial general intelligence (AGI) as if it were an inevitable and ultimate goal for technology development. In reality, the term is a vague signifier for a technology that will somehow lead t...
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Geoffrey Hinton
Godfather of Deep Learning

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“What’s actually going to happen is rich people are going to use AI to replace workers,” he said. “It’s going to create massive unemployment and a huge rise in profits. It will make a few people much richer and most people poorer. That’s not AI’s fau...
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Alex Hanna
AI sociologist and researcher

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In reality, the term is a vague signifier for a technology that will somehow lead to endless abundance for humankind.
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L Rudolf L
AI/econ writer, EA Forum

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I’ve heard many people say something like “money won’t matter post-AGI”. This has always struck me as odd, and as most likely completely incorrect. First: labour means human mental and physical effort that produces something of value. Capital goods a...
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Timnit Gebru
AI ethics researcher; DAIR founder

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My question is, utopia for whom? Who is getting this utopian life that [big tech] is promising [will come from AI]?
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Daron Acemoglu
Nobel laureate economist; MIT Institute Professor; author of Power and Progress

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Many go even further. Ray Kurzweil, a prominent executive, inventor, and author, has confidently argued that the technologies associated with AI are on their way to achieving “superintelligence” or “singularity”—meaning that we will reach boundless p...
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Eliezer Yudkowsky
AI researcher and writer

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Many researchers steeped in these issues, including myself, expect that the most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI, under anything remotely like the current circumstances, is that literally everyone on Earth will die. Not as in “maybe...
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Robin Hanson
Economist; Overcoming Bias blogger; GMU

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This end of innovation suggests our descendants will become extremely well adapted in a biological sense to the stable components of their environment. Their behavior will be nearly locally optimal, at least for the purpose of ensuring the continuati...
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David Krueger
Cambridge faculty - AI alignment, DL, and existential safety. Formerly Mila, FHI, DeepMind, ElementAI, AISI.

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Yeah AGI likely does the opposite of creating post-scarcity. I wish people would realize this.
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