Jakub Growiec

Professor

SGH Warsaw School of Economics
Quantitative Economics Department (Q.E.D.)
Al. Niepodległości 162
02-554 Warszawa, Poland

Economic Advisor

Narodowy Bank Polski
Economic Analysis Department
ul. Świętokrzyska 11/21
00-919 Warszawa, Poland

jakub.growiec [at] sgh.waw.pl

Research

• Economic growth theory
• Artificial intelligence (AI), automation, scenarios of technological singularity
• Production functions, the world technology frontier (WTF)
• Empirical measurement of productivity; growth and development accounting
• Economic aspects of social capital

AI Doom

• AGI is coming and it won't be friendly
• My p(doom|AGI)>90%
• This is our last chance to pause unsafe AI development, see e.g. PauseAI

YouTube Channel

• Big Picture Walks

Functions

• Member, CEPR Research Policy Network on Artificial Intelligence (2024-)
• Senior Research Fellow, International Centre for Economic Analysis
• Member of the Presidium, Committee of Economic Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences (2024-)
• Member, Committee of Statistics and Econometrics, Polish Academy of Sciences (2024-)

My profiles

• IDEAS
• Google Scholar
• ORCID
• Erdős number = 4 (J. Growiec -> B. Kamiński -> P. Prałat -> N. Wormald -> P. Erdős)

Wife

• Katarzyna Growiec, Ph.D.