Ryan Sean Adams

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Bankless · The Economics of AGI: Why Verification Is the New Scarcity w/ Christian Catalini · 26 Mar 2026 podcast

Maybe we can still tweet and that can provide some value to other humans?

You called this paper the economics of AGI.

And I just want to make sure we're getting some of the core economic fundamentals from this.

So one, of course, we've talked about is anything that can be measured

will be automated and the cost to automate the measurable things is just like decreasing at a exponential at this point in time.

There's another cost curve in the paper, which is the cost to verify.

It's unclear what's happening with the cost to verify.

You're arguing that that is a biological constraint.

At least it's constrained by some level of human cognition.

Does that cost curve...

Like what happens to that cost curve over time?

Does it get cheaper and cheaper to verify as well?

Or is that always going to be biologically constrained?

But can't AIs help with the verification piece?

So isn't the answer to all of that AI-generated code?

Well, you have AIs also running to verify these things.

Is there another negative externality, I guess, that crops up here, which is like if the cost to automate is going down, but we're sort of bounded by this verification, right?

It could be tempting to just let automation keep running and just to do less verification.

And I'm wondering if an externality pops up, which is sort of a safety and alignment type of externality, which is just a world that we have no idea...

Whether the work that's happening is aligned with what we want to actually happen and there's this like oversight weakening, alignment drift happening going on such that the AIs are doing things that only they can comprehend and it's not necessarily an outcome that we want.

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