World GDP growth is certain to accelerate, and the share of GDP spent on computation will be a hundred times what it was, because a computer is now a factory rather than a warehouse.

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  There will be a complete four-year doubling of world output before there is ever a one-year doubling.

  Huang says world GDP growth is certain to accelerate and that the share spent on computation will be a hundred times what it was. Christiano offers a shape rather than a number: a complete four-year doubling of world output before there is ever a one-year doubling. Both expect acceleration; only one of them has said what would count as it happening too fast to be believed.

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• AI may roughly double US GDP growth next year, from about 2% to about 4%, possibly even more. EMElon Musk18 Sept 2026
• The rest of people's lives will mostly revolve around AI, yet economic growth will still be about 1.5%. NSNoah Smith16 Sept 2026
• 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. AKAndrej Karpathy17 Oct 2025
• Compute will be the currency of the future and the most precious commodity in the world, so we should be investing heavily to make far more of it. SASam Altman18 Mar 2024
• Broad deployment of AI that can learn on the job will very likely produce rapid economic growth for some period of time. ISIlya Sutskever25 Nov 2025

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