AI isn’t a new tool; it’s a species-level “software refactor” in how humans do things.
Money has always been a resource protocol, rather than pure wealth (like how most treat it), it’s an API routing scarce compute, data, energy, and attention. AI is fascinating to me, because it forces humanity to put a new lens on how we should view life and existence, our economy’s old abstractions creak, maybe capitalism will have a software upgrade? Or just die inevitably?
As things explode (or implode, rather), we need new primitives: machine labor markets, agent-to-agent contracts, compute-denominated pricing, and streaming payments that tax/settle in real time. That pressure doesn’t stop at markets; it shoves our beliefs, value hierarchies, and even our meaning of existence into a meat-grinder in a test chamber.
Institutions? Most are horrendously slow at protocol upgrades, taking years as a measure of success; it shouldn’t be, rather, doing things right and fast instead, while being careful and thorough.
The next years will shape the next chapter for humanity, how we build systems, policy, and institutions as digital systems, stripped out of that biological overhead.
We must do what we’re good at, move on, and adapt, whether I, you or us like it or not.