Damon Binder argues that if artificial general intelligence reaches the capability to perform cognitive work comparable to humans, robotics will proliferate, enabling full economic automation. Using input-output analysis of U.S. industrial data, he projects that a fully automated economy could double its output roughly every year without requiring further technological breakthroughs. The author contends that such explosive growth would reshape geopolitical power dynamics, as nations with autonomous industrial bases could vastly outproduce rivals regardless of population size, while simultaneously reducing governments’ dependence on citizens for taxes and military service.
