Fully Automated Firms Are a Terrifyingly Good Idea
Dwarkesh Patel gets the mechanisms right, and the implications profoundly wrong
Dwarkesh Patel’s recent essay, What Fully Automated Firms Will Look Like, is one of the most provocative thought experiments on the future of corporate structure in the age of artificial intelligence. Patel avoids the the tired framing of “AI as smart assistant” by shifting the discourse to something far more consequential: AI as replicable, composable …