Pedro Domingos: future countries split between agentic economies and the third world
pmddomingos · x · 2026-09-20
Prominent ML researcher Pedro Domingos posted a provocative take: in the future there will be two kinds of country — those with an agentic economy, and third-world ones — implying agentic AI capability will be the new dividing line of national power.
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