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The guest considers economic mode collapse potentially possible but says the effects of falling consumer demand on prices have not been modeled in enough detail and remain uncertain.

Daniel Kokotajlo · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sep 2026

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“uh potentially but again like okay so so imagine that it's like so so i'm not enough of an account i haven't gamed out in as much detail to to say like what happens to the prices of like um like when when the consumer demand drops like what the effects of that will be i'm actually not sure i don't think that's something that we've modeled that much in our economic model okay yeah”
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