[PDF][PDF] Economic growth given machine intelligence

R Hanson - 2001 - Citeseer
2001Citeseer
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 …
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.
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