🤖 Humanoid robots arrive just as humans stop showing up

America's demographic slowdown makes the case for physical AI more urgent than utopian

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in the USA and around the world:

Mark this on your calendar: The Congressional Budget Office now projects that by 2030, deaths will exceed births in America. Without immigration, the country would already be shrinking. What’s more, the CBO adds: “The total population is projected to stop growing in 2056 and remain roughly the same size as in the previous year. Thereafter, the population is projected to shrink.”

While much of the AI discourse frets about a surplus of workers — “UBI now!” — those focused on demographics worry about just the opposite. Rather than view technology as a destroyer of livelihoods, they see advances in AI and robotics as a just-in-time solution. To be clear: Their argument isn’t that robots will replace people. It’s that in a world where new people are increasingly scarce, robots may be the only way to keep economies growing at all.