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BlueDot Narrated
The Intelligence Curse
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Audio versions of blogs and papers from BlueDot courses.
By Luke Drago and Rudolf Laine
This section explores how the arrival of AGI could trigger an “intelligence curse,” where automation of all work removes incentives for states and companies to care about ordinary people. It frames the trillion-dollar race toward AGI as not just an economic shift, but a transformation in power dynamics and human relevance.
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Pyramid Replacement
This technology is different
AI in the corporate pyramid
Some caveats are needed
The future of work?
Chapter 3: Capital, AGI, and Human Ambition
The default solution
Money currently struggles to buy talent
No more outlier outcomes?
Enforced equality is unlikely
The default outcome
Towards the intelligence curse
Chapter 4: Defining the Intelligence Curse
Why powerful actors care about you
The resource curse
Explaining the intelligence curse
Can the economy sideline human consumption?
Breaking the resource curse
Chapter 5: Shaping the Social Contract
Is society really that exposed to economic incentives?
Might AI free us from competitive pressures?
Differential technological development
The good outcome
Chapter 6: Breaking the Intelligence Curse
Avert
Averting catastrophe enables liberty
Technology to avert catastrophe
Policies to support this
Diffuse
Short-term: extend the human-in-the-loop period to enable decentralization
Building tech for human capabilities
Long-term: decentralization & user-alignment keeps humans in the loop
Policies for diffusion
Democratize
Democratizing technologies
Democratizing policies
Chapter 7: History is Yours to Write