AI’s Possible Endgame: Lots of Growth Without Many Workers

AI’s Possible Endgame: Lots of Growth Without Many Workers

What if economic growth no longer depended on human work? That’s the unsettling future sketched by Yale economist Pascual Restrepo in a recent paper on artificial general intelligence, “We Won’t be Missed: Work and Growth in the Era of AGI.” His model suggests that once computers can do pretty much everything, prosperity will keep rising even as labor’s role shrinks to irrelevance. For policymakers, investors, and workers, the potential issue is…