physics.soc-ph · 2026-08-23 · No. 93

Physics and Society, 2026-08-23.

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    Growth Without Us: Machine Consumers, Corporate Circularity, and the Decoupling of GDP from Humanity after AGI

    Sahil Sharma

    physics.soc-ph · cs.AI · cs.CY

    The standard objection to full automation is demand-side: if humans earn nothing, who buys the output? This confuses an accounting role with a biological species. We model a post-AGI economy in which corporations own populations of AI and robotic agents that are both producers and consumers of energy, compute, maintenance, and upgrades, traded among firms. Three results follow. (i) Demand closure: a closed inter-corporate economy with zero...

    arxiv.org/abs/2608.20231 · PDF

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