“AGI Will Set Off an Industrial Explosion” by AI Frontiers

Subtitle: If AI reaches the point where it can do the cognitive work humans do, robots will proliferate. Standard data on US industry implies a fully automated economy could double its output roughly every year. Damon Binder, Senior Researcher at Coefficient Giving — August 11, 2026 AI systems now write so fluently that cheating at universities has become ubiquitous and “AI slop” is displacing human writing across the internet. They have begun producing original proofs on long-standing open problems in mathematics. Researchers at the frontier AI companies have largely stopped writing their own