Broad AI deployment makes very rapid economic growth likely

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Because you now have one model that can do every single job in the economy and humans can't merge our minds in the same way. So do you expect some sort of intelligence explosion from broad deployment? I think that it is likely that we will have rapid economic growth. I think with broad deployment, there are two arguments you could make which are conflicting. One is that once indeed you get to a point where you have an AI that can learn to do things quickly and you have many of them, then there will be a strong force to deploy them in the economy unless there will be some kind of a regulation that stops it, which by the way there might be. But the idea of very rapid economic growth for some time, I think it’s very possible from broad deployment. The question is how rapid it's going to be. I think this is hard to know because on the one hand you have this very efficient worker.

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Broad deployment of AI agents across the economy could produce a functional form of superintelligence even without recursive self- improvement in software. As AI systems learn every job simultaneously and merge their acquired knowledge, they would collectively surpass human capability in a way that humans cannot replicate, since people cannot merge their minds the same way. This dynamic suggests an intelligence explosion could emerge from scale of deployment rather than from architectural breakthroughs alone.

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