The AI Daily Brief · Sunday, November 1, 2026
Rao outlines what he terms 'AI Malthusianism,' wherein critics worry that the rapid supply of machine intelligence will outrun human absorption capacity and render human beings economically redundant. He contrasts this pessimistic view with the 'cognitive capitalist' perspective, which views the demand for intelligence as fundamentally limitless and elastic.
“The AI Malthusian imagines that intellectual production will expand so rapidly that human beings will become economically redundant.”
“The cognitive mercantilist fears losing intelligence of scarce intelligence. The AI Malthusian fears the consequence of abundant intelligence.”