The Rollup Why AI Will Replace the Labor Force with Emad Mostaque
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Sep 28, 2025 
Emad Mostaque, founder of Stability AI, dives into the critical landscape of AI in this insightful conversation. He emphasizes the paramount importance of open-source AI while discussing the risks of corporate data harvesting. Mostaque also introduces FoundationCoin, a new economic model to support public AI projects. He shares his concerns about AI's existential threats and warns of a rapid transformation in the workforce over the next few decades, urging for proper safeguards to navigate societal upheaval.
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Universal AI As A Public Good
- Intelligent Internet aims to provide high-quality AI as a universal public good for sectors like education and healthcare.
- Emad argues that making this common-knowledge AI open, composable, and widely available will raise global intelligence and equity.
Open, Composable, Directed AI
- Build critical AI as fully open source, composable, and directed by core teams instead of relying solely on emergent marketplaces.
- Prioritize dedicated core teams to steward vital AI stacks like medicine and education for reliability and longevity.
Redefining Value In An AI Economy
- AI shifts economic value from rivalrous material goods to non-rivalrous intelligence and network effects.
- Emad proposes measuring value with material, intelligence, network, and diversity (M, I, N, D) to redesign money and incentives.
