If Your People Are Replaceable, Your Business Might Be Too
Are knowledge workers truly replaceable? While AI leaders predict mass automation, this essay argues that businesses treating employees as interchangeable cogs will lose their competitive edge. The most successful companies will use AI to augment human judgment and relationships, rather than racing to automate them away.
What Comes Next Is Bigger Than SaaS Ever Was
The next massive economic shift won't come from selling better software, but from selling the work itself. As AI transitions from tool to worker, the traditional SaaS model is being replaced by systems that automate entire job functions, fundamentally restructuring labor demand and business creation.
The 2026 Global Intelligence Crisis
Financial firm pushes back against imminent technological unemployment. While AI adoption is growing steadily, they argue it will complement workers and create new jobs rather than replacing labor entirely, balancing out any displacement through improved productivity and economic growth.
Is there an aggregate demand problem in an AGI world?
Economist Tyler Cowen tackles the macroeconomic puzzle of an AGI-driven world: if jobs disappear, who buys the goods? He argues that rapid AI progress will generate immense value and new products, preventing an aggregate demand collapse even amid severe labor displacement. The real challenges, he suggests, will stem from wealth distribution and regional economic shifts rather than a lack of overall spending.
Public Finance in the Age of AI: A Primer
Transformative AI threatens to erode the traditional tax bases of labor income and human consumption, forcing a radical rethink of public finance. As autonomous systems begin to produce the majority of economic value, policymakers may need to shift from taxing human labor to treating AGI resource accumulation as an optimal harvesting problem. This framework evaluates concrete proposals like compute taxes, robot taxes, and sovereign wealth funds to balance efficiency and equity in a post-labor economy.