The problem of full automation of labor (where no economically relevant tasks remain for humans) is distinct from the transitional period where humans still have economically relevant work, and U.S., China, and other societies will face significant domestic issues when all labor is automated, with multiple different pathways through that transition—some rosier than others.
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Jeff AlstottEvidence Quote
“There is one is the period in which there are still things for humans to do, right, which is not an original problem. And then the period of time in which there's nothing for humans to do, where we have full automation of labor. So, Joel didn't dig into these because these have not been sort of a focus of the geopolitics of AGI, but it is a category of thing that we run into again and again is imagining geopolitical scenarios for AGI.”
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Artificial General Intelligence's Five Hard National Security Problems— The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & SocietyCreated: 8/11/2026, 7:41:23 AM
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