Artificial intelligence is unlikely to split the labor market neatly into “human jobs” and “machine jobs.” A more likely outcome is that it changes the rules of selection themselves: what becomes more valuable will not simply be whatever humans can…
For decades, business learned to strip out inventories, spare capacity, and duplication. Now part of that “inefficiency” is beginning to look like the price of keeping a system alive. If a natural ecosystem were judged by the logic of a…
Future artificial intelligence may develop not as one ever-larger model, but as a system of specialized agents that divide work among themselves. Yet the natural parallel with ants has one important limit. An ant colony has a queen, but no…