Claim and evidence Close ×
Hanson’s paper “Economic Growth Given Machine Intelligence” (wording attested 2000-08-19) models machines that substitute for human labour; it says that substitution can eventually dominate, making wages fall as fast as computer prices, and that wages might fall below human subsistence levels if machine subsistence levels were lower. Copy claim link
Copy claim reference
Machine-checked Stated in source Supported
Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source
Date 2000-08-19 · event Records dated 2000 → Wording attested 2000-08-19. Capture of the PDF (PDF metadata: created 2000-06-22). No earlier capture was retrieved: year-only Wayback requests for this URL and for hanson.berkeley.edu/aigrow.pdf found none, and the CDX index was unavailable during retrieval, so an earlier capture is not excluded. Claimed date 1998. Author's own citation in the December 2000 paper. The PDF gives the author's Berkeley address; his vita lists a Berkeley postdoc in 1997–1999 and a George Mason post from 1999. The 1998 wording was not retrieved. Role Earliest located Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Tier Tier 1. Tier 1 (unchanged). Working paper with a formal growth model, abstract and references; the checked file gives an econ.berkeley.edu contact address, and the author's December 2000 working paper is issued from the Department of Economics, George Mason University. Scope and limits A conditional model result, not a forecast; a variation with exclusively human jobs is modelled separately. Earliest located means the earliest text found by the collection’s searches and the cross-family re-check of 2026-11-02, not a first statement.
The evidence 02 primary source Supports the claim
Economic Growth Given Machine Intelligence ↗ Working paper · Publication date unknown
Archived copy, captured 2000-08-19: Economic Growth Given Machine Intelligence ↗
Copy source reference
Cite the original source Cite the original document, not Selekoa. Check these details against it.
Copy APA
Download BibTeX Download RIS Download CSL-JSON
Source excerpt “At first, complementary effects dominate, and human wages rise with computer productivity. But eventually substitution can dominate, making wages fall as fast as computer prices now do.” Location in source Abstract
How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher
Machine-checked · 2026-11-02
Source details and check notes Authors Robin Hanson Version Wayback capture of http://hanson.gmu.edu/aigrow.pdf (PDF created 2000-06-22). Capture retrieved 2026-10-08 (SHA-256 754380e21b0e9f5a62fe71ea238a86e8640df48a0551c55cf4877a2a732b99c1). Versions: claimed 1998 version (1998 (author's citation)): not located; hanson.gmu.edu/aigrow.pdf (undated; dated by the 2000-08-19 capture): checked. Published version: Hanson, R. (n.d.). Economic growth given machine intelligence [Unpublished manuscript]. Retrieved from a 2000-08-19 Wayback capture of hanson.gmu.edu/aigrow.pdf. No published version located (Crossref search 2026-10-10 found none). Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-08 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2000-08-19: Economic Growth Given Machine Intelligence ↗ . No publication date is recorded for this source. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2000-08-19. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-08.Attribution Robin Hanson, “Economic Growth Given Machine Intelligence”, Working paper, author's site (hanson.gmu.edu/aigrow.pdf). 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 Quotation matched on 2026-11-02 against the held source, retrieved on 2026-11-02 from the author’s current host (mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/aigrow.pdf), byte-identical to the archived capture the source record names (SHA-256 754380e21b0e9f5a62fe71ea238a86e8640df48a0551c55cf4877a2a732b99c1). Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms; “…” joins fragments that occur in order. Cross-family pass: the re-check of 2026-11-02 (review/earliest-located-recheck-2026-11-02.md, role 143) read this text for this proposition and role. Admitted by the maintainer’s decision of 2026-11-02. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
Economic Growth Given Machine Intelligence ↗ Working paper · Publication date unknown
Archived copy, captured 2000-08-19: Economic Growth Given Machine Intelligence ↗
Copy source reference
Cite the original source Cite the original document, not Selekoa. Check these details against it.
Copy APA
Download BibTeX Download RIS Download CSL-JSON
Source excerpt “Wages might well fall below human subsistence levels, if machine subsistence levels were lower.” Location in source Section 3 “The Simplest Model”, paragraph after the wage equations
How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher
Machine-checked · 2026-11-02
Source details and check notes Authors Robin Hanson Version Wayback capture of http://hanson.gmu.edu/aigrow.pdf (PDF created 2000-06-22). Capture retrieved 2026-10-08 (SHA-256 754380e21b0e9f5a62fe71ea238a86e8640df48a0551c55cf4877a2a732b99c1). Versions: claimed 1998 version (1998 (author's citation)): not located; hanson.gmu.edu/aigrow.pdf (undated; dated by the 2000-08-19 capture): checked. Published version: Hanson, R. (n.d.). Economic growth given machine intelligence [Unpublished manuscript]. Retrieved from a 2000-08-19 Wayback capture of hanson.gmu.edu/aigrow.pdf. No published version located (Crossref search 2026-10-10 found none). Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-08 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2000-08-19: Economic Growth Given Machine Intelligence ↗ . No publication date is recorded for this source. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2000-08-19. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-08.Attribution Robin Hanson, “Economic Growth Given Machine Intelligence”, Working paper, author's site (hanson.gmu.edu/aigrow.pdf). 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 Quotation matched on 2026-11-02 against the held source, retrieved on 2026-11-02 from the author’s current host (mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/aigrow.pdf), byte-identical to the archived capture the source record names (SHA-256 754380e21b0e9f5a62fe71ea238a86e8640df48a0551c55cf4877a2a732b99c1). Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms; “…” joins fragments that occur in order. Cross-family pass: the re-check of 2026-11-02 (review/earliest-located-recheck-2026-11-02.md, role 143) read this text for this proposition and role. Admitted by the maintainer’s decision of 2026-11-02. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Machine-checked . Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
Relation. A passage of the document meets the proposition’s criterion. The record documents what the text states, in its register (fiction and satire are labelled); it is not evidence that the proposition is true and implies no influence on or from another text.
Date. The file carries no date (PDF creation metadata 2000-06-22; Berkeley address). Dated by the earliest retrieved capture, which attests the wording (maintainer decision 2026-10-09).
Record ID ec-m05-hanson-economic-growth-given-machine-intelligence-a