AGI will create abundance

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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... more Unverified source (2024)

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  Dario Amodei

  Research Scientist at OpenAI

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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... more Unverified source (2025)

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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... more Unverified source

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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... more Unverified source (2023)

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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... more Unverified source (2024)

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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... more Unverified source (2023)

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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... more Unverified source (2023)

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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. Unverified source (2025)

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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. Unverified source (2024)

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  Erik Brynjolfsson

  Economist, AI & productivity scholar

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  Welcome to the economics of abundance. Unverified source (2013)

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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... more Unverified source (2023)

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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... more Unverified source (2019)

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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... more Unverified source (2023)

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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... more Unverified source (2023)

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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... more Unverified source (2018)

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  Elon Musk

  Founder of SpaceX, cofounder of Tesla, SolarCity & PayPal

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  I think the way in which an AI or an AGI is created is very important. You grow an AGI. It's almost like raising a kid, but it’s a super genius godlike kid, and it matters how you raise such a kid. When we ultimately create a digital superintelligen... more Unverified source (2024)

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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 ... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Tech Policy Press (author)

  Tech policy scholar

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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... more Unverified source (2025)

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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... more Unverified source (2024)

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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... more Unverified source (2025)

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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. Unverified source (2025)

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  Timnit Gebru

  AI ethics researcher; DAIR founder

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  votes Against and says:

  My question is, utopia for whom? Who is getting this utopian life that [big tech] is promising [will come from AI]? Unverified source (2023)

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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... more Unverified source (2016)

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  Daron Acemoglu

  Economist; MIT professor; inequality researcher

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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... more Unverified source (2023)

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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... more Unverified source (2023)

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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. Unverified source

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