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Anton Korinek on Automating Work and the Economics of an Intelligence Explosion

Published
21 June, 2024
Video

Anton Korinek joins the podcast to discuss the effects of automation on wages and labor, how we measure the complexity of tasks, the economics of an intelligence explosion, and the market structure of the AI industry. Learn more about Anton's work here.

Timestamps:

00:00 Automation and wages

14:32 Complexity for people and machines

20:31 Moravec's paradox

26:15 Can people switch careers?

30:57 Intelligence explosion economics

44:08 The lump of labor fallacy

51:40 An industry for nostalgia?

57:16 Universal basic income

01:09:28 Market structure in AI

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