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- A small, elite 2% will seize the lion’s share of AI-driven wealth: Those who move early and strategically will dominate the emerging economic landscape, reminiscent of the wealth concentration during the Industrial Revolution.
At the core of this narrative is a realization that the bottleneck isn’t intelligence or mere robotic capability, but rather the economic scale and deployment of AI systems.
The 36-Month Timeline: A Breakdown of Key Phases
Shapiro maps out a detailed timeline, emphasizing that the next decade will be transformative, but highlights that full societal automation — a "post-labor economy" — is still decades away. Here’s a breakdown of the coming years: