Oxford economist Carl Frey calls for legislation to establish 'learning rights' over what AI learns
carlbfrey · x · 2026-10-02
In Project Syndicate, Oxford economist Carl Benedikt Frey argues that as frontier AI models exhaust the readily available stock of public internet knowledge, the remaining value lies in tacit knowledge inside organizations — whoever sets the terms of extracting and transferring it sets the terms of the next economy.
Invoking Kenneth Arrow's 1962 information paradox (information can't be valued before disclosure, yet buyers acquire it for free once disclosed), Frey calls for legislation establishing 'learning rights', analogous to mineral or broadcasting rights: legal ownership must be defined before a market can form around a newly valuable resource.
More from AGI Musings
- Viswanathan Anand on how AI is reshaping how chess players learn the game — ravi_iitm · 2026-10-02
- Open weights called "dangerous" — echoing every tech that shifted information power — 0xAllen_ · 2026-10-02
- Solomonoff Induction vs "Just Next-Token Prediction": The Endless AGI Debate — burny_tech · 2026-10-02
- repligate: Anthropic insiders mine outsiders' wisdom while staying opaque about their concerns — repligate · 2026-10-02
- Cameras didn't kill art, and AI won't either: the realism lesson — amplifiedamp · 2026-10-02
- ghuntley: coding craft is commoditized, but access to AI isn't — geoffreyhuntley · 2026-10-02