Economics of AI
What becomes of markets, firms, labor, and bargaining power when agents transact at machine speed.
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Selected papers
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Must-reads for understanding the field and why it matters for AGI institutions.
Argues that as AI makes commodity goods cheap, labor shifts to relational sectors (care, teaching, craft) where human provenance is itself what people value.
Explains how individually beneficial automation can cumulatively erode human influence over economic, political, and cultural systems.
Models output and wages as automation reaches ever more complex tasks; whether wages rise or collapse depends on whether the tasks humans can do are bounded.
Work in the field
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Recent work in the field worth knowing.
Foundations
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Older work that gives background on the field.
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