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The guest predicts massive economic growth if the AI-relevant sector expands greatly, because less important sectors will struggle to constrain it and economic actors have incentives to grow.
Thomas Larsen · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sept 2026
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“And once you have sort of like the AIs that can do that and the capability to sort of have that part of the economy,”
“like that section grow really massively,”
“then, well,”
“you'll see massive growth because it'll be really hard for sort of like the bullshit parts of the economy to like constrain the growth of the parts of it that really, really want to grow fast because of sort of the incentives that every actor has.”Play from 30:46Report a misattribution
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