Economics and Transformative AI

Thanks to comments from Daniel Björkegren, Andreas Haupt, Philip Trammel, Brent Cohn, Nick Otis, Andrey Fradkin, Jon de Quidt, Joel Becker. This is a long collection of notes about economics & AI, prompted by two excellent workshops I attended in mid-September: the Windfall Trust’s “Economic Scenarios for Transformative AI” and the NBER’s “Workshop on the Economics of Transformative AI” . I had…