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The article discusses the potential of AI systems to perform tasks more cheaply than humans, suggesting that future AGI could replace hundreds of millions of human workers, significantly increasing research capacity. It analyzes academic research output, estimating the number of researchers and researcher-years since 1900, with data showing growth in various fields like engineering, medicine, and computer science.

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This analysis highlights the potential for AI to drastically increase research capacity, suggesting that future AI systems could significantly outperform human researchers in terms of cost and output.

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