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Automation Ends in Total Post-Work Condition

Moderate automation is only the first layer of a process whose logical terminus is that essentially all economic labor is done better by machines, producing a post-work condition where humans no longer need to do any work to earn income—and after machine superintelligence drives further innovation at digital timescales, this approaches technological maturity where most physically possible technologies have been developed.

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Speaker

Nicholas Bostrom

Evidence Quote

after you have superintelligence--and I think personally not that many years after you have superintelligence--you would have a condition, I believe, that starts to approximate technological maturity, where most of those technologies that we can see are in principle physically possible have been developed

Source

Purpose, Pleasure, and Meaning in a World Without Work (with Nicholas Bostrom)EconTalk
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:04:44 AM

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