AI agents will run more of the economy while alignment remains unsolved
JMannhart · x · 2026-09-08
The author's most likely scenario: an increasing share of the economy will run on and by AI agents, leaving humans with less and less to do — while those agents remain unaligned with human goals, given that the alignment problem is still unsolved by scientific consensus.
A follow-up in the debate over agent autonomy versus alignment risk, centering on the worry of an agent-run economy.
Related event: Debate Rages Over Unaligned AI Agents Quietly Taking Over the Economy(4 posts)→
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