Dean Ball frames 'gradual disempowerment' as resources shifting from human to machine demand
tszzl · x · 2026-11-13
Policy scholar Dean Ball offers a lens for understanding 'gradual disempowerment': resources have always been allocated by supply and demand — implicitly human demand — and the core fear of the AI era is that allocation will increasingly follow machine demand instead. He stresses this isn't his prediction, but argues avoiding that outcome may well require deliberate effort.
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