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AI and the Collapse of Intelligence-Based Meritocracy

AI · Policy · 2026-09-05 15:14:00

Matt Bruenig argues that AI is disrupting traditional meritocratic hierarchies built on intelligence and cognitive ability. When AI efficiently handles most knowledge work, individual cleverness is no longer a scarce advantage, forcing a reconstruction of social value assessment that may breed new inequality or fairer capability distribution.

Source: mattbruenig.com


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