Simon-Pierre Boucher

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Essays on the economics of artificial intelligence — intelligence as an industrial input, the ownership of machine-generated wealth, and the informational limits of recursive self-improvement.

August 9, 202615 min read
AI
Economics
Macroeconomics

The Macroeconomics of White-Collar Automation

White-collar workers sit near the center of developed economies — their incomes support taxes, mortgages, consumption, and urban housing. If AI automates cognitive work faster than institutions redistribute the gains, the shock becomes macroeconomic, not merely occupational.

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August 9, 20267 min read
AI
Economics

What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Approaches Zero?

For most of economic history, useful cognitive work required scarce, educated humans. AI breaks that coupling — and when the price of a fundamental input collapses, the entire economy reorganizes around whatever remains scarce.

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August 9, 20268 min read
AI
Economics
Ownership

If AI Creates Enormous Wealth, Who Owns It?

Growth and the distribution of growth are two different things. AI may create extraordinary wealth while shifting the defining economic divide from skilled versus unskilled labor to those who sell labor versus those who own productive intelligence.

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August 9, 20269 min read
AI
Data
Scaling

What If AI Prevents Its Own Singularity?

The intelligence explosion assumes fresh information. But as machines generate more of the internet they learn from, recursive contamination could turn the exponential into a plateau — unless AI becomes radically more empirical.

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