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The intelligence curse removes incentives to invest in people

By analogy to the resource curse (where governments earning most GDP from extracted resources stop investing in or being accountable to their people), the 'intelligence curse' arises when much of a nation's GDP comes from AI: companies no longer need humans for labor, governments no longer need them for tax revenue, so people lose both economic value and political power—guaranteeing an anti-human future of new cancer drugs alongside mass disempowerment and a handful of trillionaires, unless we deliberately build an 'intelligence dividend' like Norway's sovereign wealth fund or Alaska's dividend.

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Speaker

Tristan Harris

Evidence Quote

the companies don't need you for their labor anymore so your bargaining power went away and the governments don't need you for tax revenue

Source

469 - Escaping An Anti-human FutureMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:01:37 AM

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