OpenAI publishes position paper on the future economy of AGI

On October 2, 2026, OpenAI published a signed article titled "Eternal Complementarity," arguing that frontier intelligence and "execution capability" are complements, and that a genius machine may be most valuable when doing monotonous work. The article cites research showing the number of researchers needed to sustain Moore's Law is more than 18 times higher than in the early 1970s, and that economy-wide research productivity has fallen 41-fold. The authors argue superintelligence will still need large numbers of agents to handle basic work like quarrying and bookkeeping, and introduce the concept of "institutional intelligence."

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