Exploring how the leading AI country could achieve economic dominance through superexponential growth dynamics. Analysis of trade, technological diffusion, and space resource scenarios that could enable one nation to control >99% of global output post-AGI.| Forethought
Once AI can automate human labour, *physical* capabilities could grow explosively. Sufficiently advanced robotics could create a feedback loop where automated robot factories build more and better robot factories which build more and better robot factories. In this piece, we examine three stages of an **industrial explosion**: AI-directed human labour, fully automated physical labour, and nanotechnology. An industrial explosion would arise in a world which already has greatly increased cognit...| Forethought
