'Agentic Inequality' paper published in Nature Machine Intelligence: who captures AI's surplus agency
IasonGabriel · x · 2026-10-22
Iason Gabriel announced that the updated version of the paper "Agentic Inequality" is now published in Nature Machine Intelligence, open access.
- The paper's core concept is the "surplus agency" that AI agents add to human capability across domains.
- How that surplus is distributed — broadly or narrowly — could reshape the distribution of overall opportunity and the shape of the social world.
- The author argues this is an underweighted dimension in assessing AI's societal impact.
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