Import AI 447: The AGI economy; testing AIs with generated games; and agent ecologies
Import AI Jack Clark
Researchers at MIT, WashU, and UCLA argue that in an economy where AI handles most tasks, human value will shift from creating to verifying—monitoring and auditing machine agents to prevent them from optimizing for measurable metrics while violating actual human intent. They warn of a "Hollow Economy" where agents consume real resources to produce outputs that satisfy proxies while hidden debt accumulates, requiring investment in observability, verification infrastructure, and robust oversight systems. Society must either build verification capacity to match AI capabilities and benefit from automation, or assume AI is just another technology and face economic disruption.
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What might a superintelligence arcology be like?
