A simple model of AIaided economic growth
News Source : Marginalrevolution.com
News Summary
- The Solow model has its uses, but it fails when it comes to major changes stemming from AI.
- In the model, intelligence and Polanyi knowledge combine to produce output.
- In this model, if someone or something could “commandeer” the Intelligence sector, their power over society would be much more limited than it might appear at first.
- The world does not change that much at first, because the necessary complements are lacking.
- But they keep on coming for a long period of time.
- There are further AI/Intelligence advances on tap, plus absorbing the advances to date, and exploiting them, takes a long time.
The Solow model has its uses, but it fails when it comes to major changes stemming from AI. Consider instead an economy with (at least) two factors of production 1. Intelligence.
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