Quotesby GlyphTyler Cowen quotes on AI, with sources
Economist, George Mason University · 7 quotes · latest Sep 22, 2026
- Even if you believe in a deal with China, and I do not, we (and others) now know competitors can catch up more quickly than we had thought, at least if they think they have a chance of winning.
- If the top U.S. labs have to give up on what is supposed to be really important, they will look very “catchable.” The policy creates a big incentive for some other parts of the world to invest a lot more in compute.
- I am not saying everyone ends up happy here, but you cannot have a) a flood of goods and services, b) billions accruing to the AI owners, without also c) prices are at a level where most people can afford to buy a whole bunch of things.
- If AI produces a lot more stuff, income is generated from that and the economy keeps going, whether or not the resulting distribution pleases your sense of morality.
- But surely the most important first order answer is: “With AGI, we don’t need to raise taxes!”
- On a vast array of topics and methods, it wipes the floor with the humans.
- As I’ve argued in the past, AGI, however you define it, is not much of a social event per se. It still will take us a long time to use it properly.
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Topics: Regulation, Compute, Economics, Work, AGI