This should worry everyone. Economic progress is intimately tied to scientific discoveries. And if that’s slowing down, we may still see some business model inn

This should worry everyone. Economic progress is intimately tied to scientific discoveries. And if that’s slowing down, we may still see some business model innovation (think: Uber), but less progress that increases humanity’s collective wealth. Making matters worse, population count in highly educated countries is shrinking, inevitably leading up to fewer brains trying to solve hard problems than before. For now, I don’t see the remaining countries with a growing population making up for this loss in collective cognitive capacity devoted to science. Perhaps we shouldn’t fear universal AI as much as we should cheer it on as the future saviour of science.