"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis The Machines Are Taking Our Jobs - Thank God? Emad Mostaque’s Guide to the next 1000 Days
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Sep 28, 2025 
Emad Mostaque, founder of Intelligent Internet and author of The Last Economy, explores his radical intelligence theory and its implications for the future of work and economics in the AI age. He discusses how AI's abundance may benefit users while displacing workers, debates the potential of a caring economy to replace lost jobs, and offers insights into possible futures ranging from corporate feudalism to collective ownership. Mostaque proposes a new social contract where AI acts as a public utility, funded through innovative tokenomics, ensuring equitable access for all.
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Economics Through An Intelligence Lens
- Intelligence theory frames success as minimizing predictive error, model complexity, and update cost in adaptive systems.
- Emad maps generative AI math to economics to rethink value beyond scarcity and utility.
Fast Capability Jumps, Slow Belief Updates
- Rapid capability jumps and cost reductions cause slow public prior updates and underestimation of AI's near-term economic impact.
- Small efficient models and better interfaces accelerate real-world automation more than monolithic scale alone.
Abundance Trap And Metabolic Rift
- The abundance trap is when intelligence becomes abundant but existing scarcity-based systems treat it as poverty due to job displacement.
- The metabolic rift highlights AIs' economic mismatch because GPUs don't consume like humans, breaking allocation incentives.
