Rule-Followers Will Lose To AI While The Poor And Bold Win Big, Expert Says

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Economist Tyler Cowen told the Sana AI Summit that artificial intelligence will upend the professional class while enriching risk-takers and the global poor. Those who blindly follow rules will lose out to machines that can do the same work faster and cheaper, Cowen argued, while people willing to bend norms and operate in unstructured environments will thrive. He suggested this AI-driven wealth creation might be America's only realistic path to managing its mounting debt, a half-percent GDP boost from unleashed innovation could prove transformative in ways traditional policy cannot.