That Was The Week
That Was The Week
Keith Teare
AI, Agents & the New Age of Progress: Work, Poverty & the Future
45 minutes Posted Nov 23, 2025 at 8:49 pm.
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AI isn’t breaking the web or destroying jobs—it’s ushering in a new Age of Progress.

Intelligent agents, robotics, and abundant compute are pushing us toward optional work, collapsing labor costs and reshaping the economics of wealth.

The real challenge: whether society can build the policies and systems to distribute the coming abundance.



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