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I buy therefore I am: the Artificial consumer. Towards a hybrid human-artificial economy?

Riccardo Manzotti
November 2024 - n. 11
Keywords: Intelligenza artificiale, consumatori, innovazione tecnologica
Jel codes: O33, E20

If it were possible to implement and deploy artificial consumers, what impact would they have on the economy? How would the role of conscious human beings evolve in the economy? What might a hybrid human-artificial economy be? Let’s consider the legal and technological requirements that must be met for Ai to not only serve as a product but act as a consumer. In theory, the economy of the future could be run by superintelligent artificial agents, lacking consciousness and thus the ethical values that, despite their flaws, have shaped the legal framework of human economics. Is the future we want?

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