On Monday, October 27 Tamay Besiroglu, Co-Founder and CEO of Mechanize Inc, stopped by the Lab for his talk, “Why Economists and AI Experts Disagree About the Future.”

Abstract

Economists expect economic growth to continue at around 2% per year, more or less indefinitely. By contrast, many top AI researchers predict we’ll soon have Dyson spheres.

This talk aims to explain the gap, why economists are skeptical, and what evidence might change their minds.