This is a selection of highlights from episode #191 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.
These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — and if you enjoy this, we strongly recommend checking out the full episode:
Carl Shulman on the economy and national security after AGI
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Chapters:
- Intro (00:00:00)
- Robot nannies (00:00:23)
- Key transformations after an AI capabilities explosion (00:05:15)
- Objection: Shouldn't we be seeing economic growth rates increasing today? (00:10:28)
- Objection: Declining returns to increases in intelligence? (00:16:09)
- Objection: Could we really see rates of construction go up a hundredfold or a thousandfold? (00:20:58)
- Objection: "This sounds completely whack" (00:26:10)
- Income and wealth distribution (00:30:02)
Highlights put together by Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic Armstrong
