What you're not hearing about what it takes to keep the productivity supercycle going

AI will power a multi-decade productivity supercycle like the one that began in 1983. This one is already underway, starting in the lockdowns of Q2-2020. It will take scarce and already fully utilized labor and material resources. It would be costly to achieve the AI build-out at the expense of sacrificing other valuable economic activities. Immigration is not a solution to the labor dimension, because for every laborer working on AI we would need thousands more to support them. The only answer is productivity itself. Resources can be freed for AI by finding efficiencies in other parts of the economy. Programmers thrown out of work by AI could, in principle, build more AI data centers. More generally, productivity can be found in any sector, even if not touched specifically by AI. Productivity is what it takes to make more productivity, just as it takes energy to make more energy. Fortunately productivity is in abundance thanks to the revolution in work habits and attitudes coming out of the 2020 lockdowns.