A landscape-oriented watercolor painting depicts the transition from an industrial economy to a post-scarcity future, with faded business-clad figures and currency symbols on the left dissolving into creative, curious people and utopian architecture on the right, all bridged by a luminous, translucent neural network symbolizing AGI, rendered in soft blues, teals, and purples, with a rising sun and launching rocket suggesting a hopeful economic and societal shift.

Paradigm Shifts and AGI: How Artificial General Intelligence Could Rewrite Our Economic Rules

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how quickly AI is advancing, and I keep coming back to the same question: Are we really prepared for what’s coming? Not just technically, but economically and socially? Last month, I spent some time diving into Thomas Kuhn’s concept of paradigm shifts—those moments when our fundamental understanding of something completely transforms. The more I read about AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), the more convinced I am that we’re standing at the edge of exactly this kind of transformation in economics. And honestly? It’s both fascinating and terrifying. ...