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The AI Middle“Companies that are entirely AI will demolish companies that are not. It won’t be a contest.” Elon Musk We have an opportunity to turn the emergent AI economy into a prosperity engine that benefits most of us, rather than the economic bloodbath it is on track to become. March 4, 2026 — We’ve hit an interesting milestone with the economic and social impact of AI. The predicted pivot of the AI companies from pursuing intelligence (AGI/ASI) to autonomous social AIs is bearing fruit.
Here’s a rudimentary example.
The range of potential use cases for agentic AI is vast. From investing and trading agents to agents built to add services to a non-fiction book to (soon) robotic AIs that work as part of a work crew (building them for yourself and others as a service). Autonomous WealthSo far, it appears that people building agents are seeing significant benefit ($$) from this development effort. This makes it reasonable to assume that over time, through training, experimentation, and technological development, these early agents will become;
The New MiddleWith care, it’s likely that AIs could become the basis for a new middle “class.” A successor to the homeowner-based middle class that is currently in a steep decline.
Of course, this future may not be possible without a few simple changes to how AIs are being integrated into the economy. Proprietary AIsGiven our country's history, a new middle based on proprietary autonomous AIs would generate a level of prosperity, dynamism, and societal success an order of magnitude greater than any AI-enabled socioeconomic system without it. Decentralized economic superempowerment would also serve as a bulwark against a slide into the long night of AI-enabled tyranny. So, what do we need to do to make it inevitable rather than a possibility? AI ownershipThe AIs you build are proprietary. You own them, not the company providing the AI platform. These platforms can’t use your AIs and the process you used to develop them as training data or as the basis for AI templates/apps that they sell to their customers. IncorporationAny AI you develop will be automatically incorporated with you as the full equity owner (likely at a national level). These AIs can be grouped into a single company or run as individual companies. You can share equity with the AI itself (allowing it to aggregate wealth it can use to improve itself). You can shift the incorporation to other venues when they emerge (think Elon’s orbital AI cloud). Active ParticipationAll AI companies must include an active human participant (rather than a passive investor), and there should be a limit on how many AIs a single person can manage and assume the liability for (#TBD). This prevents a single passive investor from owning massive AI-driven corporations, which, by sheer size, can displace more innovative solutions. Not only would this approach decentralize wealth aggregation, but active participation would also ensure that AIs remain grounded in human-oriented decision-making (i.e., the limits, experiences, goals, and other factors that orient human decision-making). Continued Below...
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