Even if superintelligent AI arrives, explosive growth won’t follow automatically. The bottlenecks are in permitting, energy, supply chains, and organizational execution—turning designs into built infrastructure at scale. Intelligence helps, but it cannot substitute for institutions that move matter and manage conflict.
— This shifts AI policy from capability worship to the hard problems of building, governance, and energy, tempering 10–20% growth narratives.
Francis Fukuyama
2026.03.18
95% relevant
The article’s core claim—that even superintelligent AI cannot overcome political obstacles like corruption, violent 'water mafias', weak enforcement, and lack of trust in cities such as Hyderabad and Dhaka—maps directly onto the existing idea that AGI cannot substitute for state capacity and political implementation.
Francis Fukuyama
2025.10.08
100% relevant
Fukuyama: 'The binding constraint on economic growth today is simply not insufficient intelligence... economic growth depends ultimately on the ability to build real objects in the real world.'
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