The world of platform labor is in principle a net good: Platform marketplaces can substantially improve social welfare by enabling new or improved transactions. This leads to new forms of labor activity, expanding workers’ options. Those whose niche interests and skills would have made it challenging to make a living from local customers can now... See more

This paper examines the impending economic transformation from a regime primarily reliant on human labor and capital to one dominated by artificial general intelligence (AGI)-driven productivity. Utilizing an analytic framework based on production functions, it introduces a "power shift" index that delineates the conditions under which AGI may... See more