Economics of machine intelligence

Which located texts, from 1952 to 2026, state, contest or bear on propositions about the economics of machine intelligence? Three strands are recorded. The first is the debate over whether machine intelligence could make economic growth explosive. The second is how mainstream economics treated automation, computers and AI. The third is how economists took up recursive self-improvement, superintelligence and existential risk from AI, ideas mostly discussed outside economics. For each proposition, which text by an economist is the earliest located, and which text outside that group?

Each row is one text’s stance on one proposition, as a stored record states it: articulates, contests or bears on. A stance belongs to the text, not to its author. Rows are in date order, which records no influence between texts. Authors appear as the texts’ own bylines print them, pseudonyms included. “Earliest located” marks only a text the collection’s records name as the earliest the searches found.

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