AI and the Economy

What you'll learn — competencies

Pass each module's knowledge check to earn these competencies (view in the competency framework ↗):

• Reading the exposure & impact estimates
• Task-vs-occupation exposure analysis
• The displacement vs productivity lens
• Growth-claim skepticism
• Following the gains (labor share & concentration)
• The demand paradox
• Income-vs-jobs framing
• Evaluating redistribution designs
• Using historical analogies honestly
• Scenario reasoning

Badges you can earn

Complete each module to collect these badges. Click any badge for details.

Exposure Reader Task Splitter Net Effect Hype Discount Follow the Money The Customer Paradox Beyond the Paycheck Surplus Sharer This Time Scenario Planner Macro Mapped

Course modules

1. Section 01: The Economy Is About to Change: How Much, How Fast?
2. Section 02: Exposed, Augmented, or Replaced? Reading the Task-Exposure Studies
3. Section 03: Productivity vs Displacement: the Two Forces
4. Section 04: Will the Pie Get Bigger? Growth, Productivity & the Skeptics
5. Section 05: Who Gets the Gains? Labor Share, Wages & Concentration
6. Section 06: The Paradox at the Heart of It: Who Will Buy What AI Makes?
7. Section 07: An Economy That Loops Without People? Income in a Near-Laborless World
8. Section 08: The Proposed Responses: UBI, Ownership & the Alternatives
9. Section 09: Have We Seen This Before? Historical Analogies & Their Limits
10. Section 10: The Future of Business & the World Economy: Scenarios, Not Predictions

Suggested pre-requisites

Pre-requisites are recommendations, not gates — you can enroll in any course at any time.

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