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At the centre Economics cannot say what AI will do to work because the necessary data does not exist; what is needed is a Manhattan Project for data. Holds AIAlex Imas Read this korrent →

• Similar wording AI's bottleneck was never its algorithms but how little data they were fed, which is why the field needed ImageNet rather than another model. Holds FLFei-Fei Li
• Similar wording The biggest gap in economics right now is that almost nobody is thinking about what AI does to middle-income developing countries. Holds AIAlex Imas
• Similar wording If AI can build the new theory that crystallises how to think about a subject, it would be surprising if that capability did not spill into the rest of the economy. Holds GSGrant Sanderson
• Similar wording AI will not run out of data, because there is already enough real-world data to build the simulators that generate more of it. Holds DHDemis Hassabis
• Similar wording There is no AI bubble on the demand side: the shortage of computing capacity is global, and spans every company and industry. Holds JHJensen Huang
• Similar wording Individual economists' forecasts about AI and the labour market are close to worthless, and aggregated forecasts from prediction markets should replace them. Holds AIAlex Imas
• Similar wording We are already in an intelligence explosion and have been for decades, so AI will show up as more of the same exponential rather than a break in it. Holds AKAndrej Karpathy
• Similar wording Broad deployment of AI that can learn on the job will very likely produce rapid economic growth for some period of time. Holds ISIlya Sutskever