
What Happens When AI Runs the Entire Economy?
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What happens when AI controls prices, jobs, markets, and growth itself? Explore the future of an economy run by machines—and what it means for work, power, and humanity.
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Credits: What Happens When AI Runs the Entire Economy?
Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur
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Chapters
0:00 Intro - The Invisible Hand Becomes a Neural Network
2:58 What Does “Running the Economy” Actually Mean?
5:30 What Does “Running the Economy” Actually Mean?
10:19 Labor in an AI-Run Economy
14:41 Who Programs the Economy’s Values?
17:01 Government, Power, and Economic Sovereignty
20:21 So, Can Humans Stay in the Loop?
22:56 The Best-Case and Worst-Case Futures
24:53 Abolish Everything
25:57 The Last Economic Decisions We Ever Make
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