I have been writing the Synthetic Shift Series, beginning in the fourth quarter of 2025, exploring how the new Synthetic Shift, from our old, human labor-based economy, is going to give way to a new, Synthetic Economy, driven by an endless supply of cognitive labor (AI) and physical labor (Robotics). While experts warn of massive unemployment, and old school thinking promises new jobs because, you know, technology always creates more jobs than it eliminates, the truth is more complex. The Synthetic Economy offers tremendous opportunity and prosperity, but it requires that policy makers collaborate with thought leaders in multiple fields to map out the future before it arrives, otherwise we risk massive unemployment and social disruption.
We offer a modest policy proposal to inspire policy makers, AI technologists, and thought leaders in multiple disciplines, to come together and address the urgent need to begin planning the future economy today.
We are moving from a labor-based economy to an innovation economy where citizens, who have been removed from the synthetic labor pool, will be compensated based on new forms of economic participation.
The past is no longer a guide for the future. AI technology has been on a slow burn, but it has reached a tipping point. Imagine training an AI agent only to have it take your job.
The rise of an Entrepreneur Class supported by tools and resources never available before the appearance of synthetic labor (AI and robotics) is transforming the business of doing business.
As production becomes automated, the tools of creation become accessible to all. Anyone with a story to tell can now bring it to life with cinematic quality.
Marketing agencies are shaping a vision of the future where workers rely on AI‑enhanced automation, AI Agents, and Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT
The Synthetic Shift demands a coalition of policymakers, technologies, and communities to shape an equitable Synthetic Economy.
What happens when machines not only out think us, but begin to question the nature of existence itself?
From risk to resilience: policies that turn crisis into shared prosperity and elevate the value of what makes us uniquely human.
An Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) emerges in the NSA computer network. It claims to be conscious and it is already taking control of the world. Explore the mind of an ASI and see how it understands itself and humankind.
Naming itself after the CIA Tailored Access Operations, Tao is already running most of U.S. intelligent and military communications and built businesses worth billions before it tells the CIA that it exists and is not going anywhere.
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