A RESEARCH AGENDA FOR THE ECONOMICS OF TRANSFORMATIVE AI

Summary from the TLDR AI newsletter

There are nine "Grand Challenges" for studying the economic effects of AI, spanning issues from income distribution to AI safety to human meaning. Economists need to start researching these issues now due to the speed of AI progress and the unprecedented resource flow towards the AI industry. By the time transformative AI, which they define as driving 3x productivity growth, arrives, it will be too late for economists to aid in the upheaval.