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Clancy and Besiroglu (2023-06) articulates G04. Speaker: Matt Clancy. Clancy gives a verbal version of the Aghion, Jones and Jones task model applied to innovation: with every task required and automation advancing about 1% a year, growth stays steady; only faster or full automation gives explosive growth. Clancy says AI is "pretty likely to boost growth" and then lists bottlenecks that slow AGI's takeover of tasks: physical-world tasks, raw materials, training data, the time natural processes take, preferences for human performers, regulation and zero-sum competition. Clancy's closing turn: different sectors are held back by materials, time, data or regulation; sectors that automate easily become cheap and "no longer count for much of GDP". Copy claim link
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Date 2023-06 · publication Wording attested 2023-12-23. Only retrieved capture. Claimed date 2023. "back-and-forths ... in spring of 2023"; the original exchange was not retrieved and the published dialogue may be edited. Role Earliest located in tier 2 Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Tier Tier 2. Tier 2 (unchanged). Magazine debate (Asterisk). The magazine introduces Matt Clancy as an economist and Tamay Besiroglu as a research scientist. Judgement recorded: no turn is itself a substantive scholarly argument; each answers the previous turn and argues by verbal sketches of others' models, with no model or derivation of its own, so the debate rule applies to both speakers. Conditions Every innovation task is required; innovation gets harder each year; displaced workers retrain onto the remaining tasks. Scope and limits (First passage) The quotation is a turn by Matt Clancy in a dialogue. Clancy attributes the model to Aghion, Jones and Jones and presents it as his view. Replaced in the correction pass (audits A and C): the earlier quote was an intermediate step that Clancy corrects in his next paragraph. (Second passage) The quotation is a turn by Matt Clancy in a dialogue. Moved from G05 under the G04/G05 criterion of 2026-10-10: the passage's own conclusion is that the bottlenecks slow the rate at which AGI takes over tasks. Some items in his list (natural processes, preferences) could bind after full automation; he does not argue that they do. Same record as the first passage. Recorded under G05 before the correction pass of 2026-10-10. (Third passage) The quotation is a turn by Matt Clancy in a dialogue. Moved from G05 with the second passage: the accumulation argument is a sectoral (Baumol) composition argument about uneven automation. Same record as the first passage. Recorded under G05 before the correction pass of 2026-10-10.
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The Great Inflection? A Debate About AI and Explosive Growth ↗ Asterisk magazine, issue 03 · 2023-06
Archived copy, captured 2023-12-23: The Great Inflection? A Debate About AI and Explosive Growth ↗
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Source excerpt “Either you greatly speed up the pace of automation, so that you can shift a lot more than 1% of the workforce onto the remaining tasks, or you automate 100% of the tasks necessary for innovation.” Location in source Matt Clancy's turn beginning "I think that's a fair representation", paragraph beginning "In this kind of model, what can deliver explosive growth?"
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Source details and check notes Authors Matt Clancy; Tamay Besiroglu Version Wayback capture of asteriskmag.com/issues/03/the-great-inflection-a-debate-about-ai-and-explosive-growth. Capture retrieved 2026-10-08 (SHA-256 e8b29f97be40d49c282cac8d279cc008644b822a4607533999157375d01753d1). Published version: Clancy, M., & Besiroglu, T. (2023, June). The great inflection? A debate about AI and explosive growth. Asterisk, (3). Magazine debate. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-08 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2023-12-23: The Great Inflection? A Debate About AI and Explosive Growth ↗ . An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2023-12-23. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-08.Attribution Matt Clancy, Tamay Besiroglu, “The Great Inflection? A Debate About AI and Explosive Growth”, Asterisk magazine, issue 03, 2023-06. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage G04-h (research/economics-growth). The quotation (36 words) matched the checked expression (asterisk-debate) in the pack's verification. Re-checked at admission on 2026-10-14 against a copy retrieved that day, whose SHA-256 differs from the recorded one. primary source Supports the claim
The Great Inflection? A Debate About AI and Explosive Growth ↗ Asterisk magazine, issue 03 · 2023-06
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Source excerpt “my best guess at why we won't see changes as dramatic as you anticipate is because there are going to be a billion little bottlenecks that will persistently slow the rate at which AGI takes over tasks.” Location in source Matt Clancy's turn beginning "As a quick aside"; his closing turn, first observation
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Source details and check notes Authors Matt Clancy; Tamay Besiroglu Version Wayback capture of asteriskmag.com/issues/03/the-great-inflection-a-debate-about-ai-and-explosive-growth. Capture retrieved 2026-10-08 (SHA-256 e8b29f97be40d49c282cac8d279cc008644b822a4607533999157375d01753d1). Published version: Clancy, M., & Besiroglu, T. (2023, June). The great inflection? A debate about AI and explosive growth. Asterisk, (3). Magazine debate. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-08 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2023-12-23: The Great Inflection? A Debate About AI and Explosive Growth ↗ . An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2023-12-23. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-08.Attribution Matt Clancy, Tamay Besiroglu, “The Great Inflection? A Debate About AI and Explosive Growth”, Asterisk magazine, issue 03, 2023-06. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage G04-k (research/economics-growth). The quotation (37 words) matched the checked expression (asterisk-debate) in the pack's verification. Re-checked at admission on 2026-10-14 against a copy retrieved that day, whose SHA-256 differs from the recorded one. primary source Supports the claim
The Great Inflection? A Debate About AI and Explosive Growth ↗ Asterisk magazine, issue 03 · 2023-06
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Source excerpt “First, I don't think each of these bottlenecks is enough, on its own, to short-circuit explosive growth. It's their accumulation.” Location in source Matt Clancy's closing turn, first of "three broad observations"
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Source details and check notes Authors Matt Clancy; Tamay Besiroglu Version Wayback capture of asteriskmag.com/issues/03/the-great-inflection-a-debate-about-ai-and-explosive-growth. Capture retrieved 2026-10-08 (SHA-256 e8b29f97be40d49c282cac8d279cc008644b822a4607533999157375d01753d1). Published version: Clancy, M., & Besiroglu, T. (2023, June). The great inflection? A debate about AI and explosive growth. Asterisk, (3). Magazine debate. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-08 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2023-12-23: The Great Inflection? A Debate About AI and Explosive Growth ↗ . An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2023-12-23. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-08.Attribution Matt Clancy, Tamay Besiroglu, “The Great Inflection? A Debate About AI and Explosive Growth”, Asterisk magazine, issue 03, 2023-06. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage G04-k2 (research/economics-growth). The quotation (20 words) matched the checked expression (asterisk-debate) in the pack's verification. Re-checked at admission on 2026-10-14 against a copy retrieved that day, whose SHA-256 differs from the recorded one. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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Date. Page: "Published June 2023". The introduction states the conversation "is based on a series of back-and-forths Matt and Tamay had in spring of 2023".
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