What Is There to Fear in a Post-AGI World?

Betsey Stevenson
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Copyright 2026
ISBN 9780226854083
cover image, The Economics of Transformative AI, edited by Agrawal, Brynjolfsson, and Korinek
CONFERENCE HELD September 18-19, 2025
Book: The Economics of Transformative AI
Book editors: Ajay K. Agrawal, Erik Brynjolfsson & Anton Korinek
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
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  • Betsey Stevenson, The Economics of Transformative AI (University of Chicago Press, 2025), chap. 10, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/economics-transformative-ai/what-there-fear-post-agi-world.

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