Economic growth given machine intelligence (2001)
| Venue: | JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH |
| Citations: | 7 - 0 self |
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@ARTICLE{Hanson01economicgrowth,
author = {Robin Hanson},
title = {Economic growth given machine intelligence},
journal = {JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH},
year = {2001}
}
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Abstract
A simple exogenous growth model gives conservative estimates of the economic implications of machine intelligence. Machines complement human labor when they become more productive at the jobs they perform, but machines also substitute for human labor by taking over human jobs. At first, expensive hardware and software does only the few jobs where computers have the strongest advantage over humans. Eventually, computers do most jobs. At first, complementary effects dominate, and human wages rise with computer productivity. But eventually substitution can dominate, making wages fall as fast as computer prices now do. An intelligence population explosion makes per-intelligence consumption fall this fast, while economic growth rates rise by an order of magnitude or more. These results are robust to automating incrementally, and to distinguishing hardware, software, and human capital from other forms of capital.
Keyphrases
machine intelligence economic growth computer productivity human labor conservative estimate expensive hardware complementary effect computer price economic growth rate human job human capital machine complement human labor per-intelligence consumption fall simple exogenous growth model intelligence population explosion economic implication human wage rise
