🧠 AI vs Humans — What Will Drive GDP Growth in the Future? 🧠 AI vs Humans — What Will Drive GDP Growth in the Future? The foundational drivers of economic growth have long been population, education and technology . Human capital theory — from Schultz (1961) to Becker (1964) — established that education builds capability, while Lucas and Romer later demonstrated the accelerating role of knowledge and technological progress. For decades, global growth relied on a simple economic engine: more educated people → more productive workers → more GDP. China and India embody this logic; their massive populations have been central to their economic rise. In China, literacy reaches 96.7%, with over 55 million graduates generated between 2021–2025. In India, literacy increased from just 18.3% in 1951 to over 74% by 2011 — a monumental expansion of human capital. The New Paradigm...