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# Upcoming Paper Jam: AI and Our Economic Future
- URL: https://leif.me/upcoming-paper-jam-ai-and-our-economic-future/
- Published: 2026-06-24T08:09:30.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-24T08:09:30.000Z
- Author: Dr. Leif Singer
- Tags: Paper Jams

We'll be meeting for Paper Jam #19 on **Friday, July 17 at 1pm UTC**. We'll be discussing:

*Charles I. Jones*  
**AI and Our Economic Future** (2026) \[[link](https://web.stanford.edu/~chadj/AIandEconomicFuture.pdf?ref=leif.me)\]

This one is a departure proposed by a member of Paper Jams. Our papers so far have come from the human-factors-of-software world; this is an economist's essay. But it picks up exactly where our recent conversations have drifted: LLMs are happening, developers are at the leading edge of it — and then what? 

Jones — a professor of economics at Stanford University — asks what it means for the economy as a whole if machines can eventually do *every* task a human can. One central point he makes is about *weak links*: a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and growth stays bottlenecked by the tasks we haven't automated yet. He also discusses questions of abundance / growth-acceleration and whether this time, things really might be different. 

Paper Jams is a monthly one-hour video call where a small group discusses an academic paper on the human factors of making software. We follow the Chatham House Rule, and the conversation goes wherever the group takes it.

Interested? [Subscribe to Paper Jams](https://leif.me/paper-jams/) to get invited to the call.