🧠 Decoding The Economist’s Cover: “The Economics of Superintelligence”
On July 26, 2025, The Economist dropped a chilling cover — a distorted, currency-like human face with an unnatural grin, wired into a digital circuit board.
What’s the message?
• Man + Machine Fusion: Identity dissolving into algorithms.
• Profit vs. Power: AGI is no longer sci-fi — who controls and benefits?
• Smile of Denial: A machine mimicking human happiness, or us ignoring the risks?
Why it matters:
• AI is now embedded in finance, policy, and labor markets.
• Unchecked profit motives + superintelligence could widen inequality and shift power from people to machines.
• Regulation and ethics are lagging behind.
This isn’t a celebration — it’s a warning:
If we let AI run the economy for profit alone, humanity could lose control.
What do you think?
Is this our future of endless growth — or a wake-up call to rethink AI economics?
