Expert opinions on Inequality

This creates what we call the “Abundance Flywheel”: commit compute to a hard problem, focus R&D until it clears, watch the domain collapse from artisanal craft to industrial utility, capture the surplus, and reinvest it into the next target. Repeat u...

AI could make goods and services cheaper than ever, raising hopes for a new age of abundance where scarcity plays a smaller role in human life.

It is often suggested that the advent of powerful AI will create abundance and that it can thereby contribute to securing social harmony. This paper draws on Hirsch’s study of different kinds of limits to growth to show that this is false.

In essence, the number of people necessary to make large corporations function is going to be dramatically reduced.

This is more than a learning curve. It’s a structural challenge for individuals, employers and entire industries — one that risks widening inequalities if left unaddressed.

When finished, this hub will house gigawatt-scale compute and a new international subsea cable gateway, bringing jobs and the benefits of cutting-edge AI to people and businesses across India.

This article proposes a rights-based governance architecture that binds AI deployment to worker voice, enforceable human rights due diligence, and universal social-protection floors.

Therefore, having an unconditional series of payments from universal basic income would be an effective safety net for unemployed individuals.

Universal basic income is a policy prescription that those people calling for it tended to believe in years earlier, before they had even heard of AI, and now it fits this scenario. I do not know what the outcomes and therefore the mitigations of AI ...

The new AI prophets of doom suffer from a failure of imagination. They simply cannot envision what work the future will bring, so they conclude it will bring none. In the real world, Washington would stack a UBI atop existing programs, adding trillio...