Scenarios for the Transition to AGI
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12107v1
- Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2024 22:22:28 GMT
- Title: Scenarios for the Transition to AGI
- Authors: Anton Korinek, Donghyun Suh,
- Abstract summary: We analyze how output and wages behave under different scenarios for technological progress.
We assume that human work can be decomposed into atomistic tasks that differ in their complexity.
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- Abstract: We analyze how output and wages behave under different scenarios for technological progress that may culminate in Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), defined as the ability of AI systems to perform all tasks that humans can perform. We assume that human work can be decomposed into atomistic tasks that differ in their complexity. Advances in technology make ever more complex tasks amenable to automation. The effects on wages depend on a race between automation and capital accumulation. If the distribution of task complexity exhibits a sufficiently thick infinite tail, then there is always enough work for humans, and wages may rise forever. By contrast, if the complexity of tasks that humans can perform is bounded and full automation is reached, then wages collapse. But declines may occur even before if large-scale automation outpaces capital accumulation and makes labor too abundant. Automating productivity growth may lead to broad-based gains in the returns to all factors. By contrast, bottlenecks to growth from irreproducible scarce factors may exacerbate the decline in wages.
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