WHY THIS CONVERSATION?
All societal structures—economic markets, legal frameworks, political systems—depend on the assumption that human intelligence is scarce and distributed across individuals.
AGI challenges that assumption.
The Mini-Summit examines the potential consequences through the "Triad of Civilization" framework:
💰Economics manages resources.
When cognitive labor is no longer scarce, can capitalism survive? If economic value has historically been tied to human thinking, what economic models emerge when thinking becomes abundant?
⚖️Law provides constraints on resource management.
Law has, to a degree, mechanized society through rules and procedures. If AGI can interpret law based on understanding intent and context—does it bring humanity back to law, or complete the mechanization already evident in algorithmic enforcement?
🏛️Governance manages those constraints.
Political power has always been limited by the scarcity of human intelligence needed to exercise it. What happens to governance structures when intelligence can be mass-produced and concentrated?
Beyond these structural questions lies a deeper one: What does it mean to be human when machines can think, reason, and create at human levels?
These are not predictions of collapse—they are foundational questions about transformation that demand cross-disciplinary attention now, while we can still shape the trajectory.