AI multiplies ‘notional worker’ numbers to infinity
- mickbrawn
- May 26
- 1 min read
Whereas digital automation reduced the unit cost of production of digital ‘things’ like music, books, movies – in fact anything that can be digitised and copied - Artificial Intelligence has radically increased the notional number of available workers and simultaneously reduced the cost of labour.
Just as digital automation vastly reduced the cost of production of digital ‘things’, AI has vastly reduced the cost and increased the availability of digital ‘people’.
The ‘Virtual Machine’ at the heart of early Information Technology evolution, has returned triumphant. No longer merely replicating digital ‘things’ but replicating digital people too – potentially without limit.
What will happen to the unit costs of raw materials, administration, management, production and distribution (i.e. the unit cost of products and services) as AI Agent Infrastructures take on those roles?
As our human populations inevitably decline worldwide will we be left merely to consume abundant, essentially free, products and services?
We had best hope not.
Mick Brawn
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