
Damon Binder is a Senior Researcher at Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy), where he investigates existential risks from biology and advanced AI. He previously worked at the Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University, and has a PhD in physics from Princeton.
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, with no further breakthroughs required.