Generative AI is accelerating a shift in the economy by replacing skilled knowledge work with scalable automation—not because it's better, but because it's cheaper. This change reflects existing power structures and economic incentives, not technological inevitability. The core challenge is not technical performance but human decision-making: who controls the tools, what values they encode, and what kind of society we’re building around them.

The current wave of AI represents the largest impact on social and economic life since the Enclosure movement of the 17th and 18th centuries. That movement shaped the modern world, but left behind a path of destruction as livelihoods were uprooted and sacrificed in the name of progress. Now, as we are faced with changes of similar scale, we have the opportunity to learn from the lessons of the past in order to create world that benefits the majority of humankind.