Patel: Corporations will eventually be managed day-to-day by AI systems
Dwarkesh Patel · Dwarkesh Patel and Noah Smith on AGI and the Economy · Aug 4, 2025 · at 30:17
Podcast host Dwarkesh Patel outlines how AI systems will run corporate day-to-day operations during an a16z podcast episode on AGI economics.
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“AIs will be integrated through all the firms in the economy. A firm can have property. Firms will be like largely run by AIs, even though there's nominally a human board of directors and it might not even be nominal, right? Like maybe the AIs are aligned and like genuinely give the board of directors an accurate summary of what's happening, but like day to day they're being run by AIs and firms can have property rights.”
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