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China's growth resembles AI-driven growth in some respects, but it relied on capital accumulation, technology adoption, and probably human-capital accumulation without a major labor-force expansion; AI-driven growth should also scale up the AI workforce.

Unidentified speaker · AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu · 17 Apr 2025

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“So I would say in some ways it's similar,”
“in some ways it's not. The way probably the most important way in which it's not similar is that in China you see this relative,”
“like you see a massive amount of capital accumulation,”
“a substantial amount of adoption of...”
“of new technologies and probably also human capital accumulation”
“to some extent and but you're not seeing a huge scale up in the labor force the figure labor force while for AI you should expect to see a scale up in labor force as well not in human”
“workforce,”
“but in the AI workforce.”
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