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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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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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