Jakub Growiec
Scholar

Jakub Growiec

Google Scholar ID: 3X-0KNwAAAAJ
SGH Warsaw School of Economics & Narodowy Bank Polski
Economic GrowthProduction FunctionHuman CapitalSocial Capital
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
806
 
H-index
18
 
i10-index
26
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
24
list available
Resume
Research Experience
  • Professor at the Quantitative Economics Department (Q.E.D.), SGH Warsaw School of Economics
  • Economic Advisor at the Economic Analysis Department, Narodowy Bank Polski (National Bank of Poland)
  • Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Economic Analysis
  • Member of the CEPR Research and Policy Network on Artificial Intelligence (since 2024)
  • Member of the Presidium, Committee of Economic Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences (since 2024)
  • Member of the Committee of Statistics and Econometrics, Polish Academy of Sciences (since 2024)
Background
  • Research interests include economic growth theory, artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and scenarios of technological singularity
  • Focuses on production functions and the world technology frontier (WTF)
  • Works on empirical measurement of productivity, growth and development accounting
  • Studies economic aspects of social capital
  • Believes AI poses an existential risk to humanity, with a personal estimate of p(doom) = 85% and p(doom|AGI) > 90%
  • Advocates pausing unsafe AI development and supports the PauseAI movement