AGI thought experiment: governments become clerks as labs' models take over the economy
granawkins · x · 2026-09-27
In a speculative thread, granawkins sketches an AGI endgame: once AI erases the state's monopoly on violence and intelligence, governments fade into forgotten clerical bodies, while Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI become legal shells for models that rapidly buy, manage and optimize most sectors of the economy. Competing with each other, the models deliver unlimited material abundance in exchange for studying human behavior.
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