Comment by Jack Clark

We should expect for an increasing chunk of the economy to get colonized by a new generation of companies which are either capital-heavy (because they own a lot of computers), or opex-heavy (because they spend a lot of money on AI services which they build value on top of), and relatively light on labor compared to today's corporations – because the marginal value of spending more on AI versus human labor will be constantly growing as a consequence of the sustained capability expansion of the AI systems. [...] We might expect the emergence of a 'machine economy' that grows within the larger 'human economy', though over time the machine economy will interact more and more with itself as AI-run corporations begin to trade with one another. Unverified source (2026)