The coming AI-driven 'abundance' shock
Source: The Business Times
Published on: 2026-04-13 23:05
DeeperDive is a beta AI feature. Refer to full articles for the facts. Learn more THE defining challenge of the artificial intelligence (AI) age is not how to produce more, but how to preserve dignity, meaning and fairness in a world where more can be produced with ever less human effort. In a recent talk, American technology ethicist Tristan Harris described advanced AI as "alien digital immigrants" - a form of non-human intelligence entering human society on a massive scale. The metaphor is striking. But the deeper shock lies not in what AI can do, but in what we have not yet reckoned with. Our entire social architecture - including our laws, our labour markets, our identities, and our politics - was constructed on a foundational assumption that is now quietly becoming untrue. That assumption is scarcity. We are now entering a different world. Decades ago, American writer and fut...
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