Global labor, skills and social transformation
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The Reallocation of Labor in the Algorithmic Economy: Power, Value, and Cognitive Dependence
Artificial intelligence intervenes in labor not as a sector-specific technology, but as a force of systemic reordering of the global economy. Its impact is not measured solely in terms of task automation or productivity growth, but in the reconfiguration of the relationships between space, value, and decision. In this sense, AI acts as a geographic…
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Economic Agency in the Age of Systems: Automation, Decision, and the Redistribution of Power
Advanced automation and artificial intelligence are affecting the functioning of the economy at a level deeper than simple productivity. Their primary impact concerns the distribution of economic agency, that is, the effective capacity to decide, orient, and assume consequences within processes of value creation. In every economic order, agency is never evenly distributed: it is…
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Learning Under Pressure: Artificial Intelligence, Human Capital, and the Structural Instability of Skills
The transformation produced by artificial intelligence affects the economic system at a point that precedes the labor market and measured productivity: the relationship between learning, professional continuity, and economic value. Every advanced economy has historically been founded on an implicit promise of dynamic stability, according to which investment in education allows individuals to maintain over…
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Stratified Labor and Cognitive Hierarchies in the Artificial Intelligence Economy
Artificial intelligence does not introduce a simple reorganization of tasks, but acts as a principle of stratification that profoundly redefines the architecture of professional inequalities. It does not merely replace human labor with automation, but restructures the way value is attributed to different forms of productive contribution. In this sense, AI operates as a systemic…
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The Invisible Price of Intelligence: Work, Value, and Decision in the Computational Economy
Modern political economy has been founded on an implicit yet powerful assumption: human labor constitutes the primary vector of value creation and, through wages, the fundamental mechanism for the distribution of wealth. Artificial intelligence undermines this arrangement not as a simple technology of substitution, but as a systemic factor that progressively separates value, labor, and…
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The Unstable Equilibrium of Work: Artificial Intelligence and the Resilience of High-Complexity Societies
The resilience of complex societies depends on the ability to transform economic change into social continuity. For more than a century, work has fulfilled this function as a silent stabilizer, absorbing technological shocks and redistributing over time the benefits and costs of innovation. Artificial intelligence now intervenes in this mechanism with a depth that goes…
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Algorithmic Productivity and Asymmetric Power: The New Frontier of Economic Capacity
Artificial intelligence intervenes in productivity as a frontier technology, capable of redefining not only how much an economic system produces, but who can produce, under what conditions, and with what capacity to shape the future. This is not a simple increase in efficiency, but a structural transformation of the relationship between resources, decisions, and value.…
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Latitudes of Knowledge and Value Concentration in the Algorithmic Economy
Artificial intelligence introduces a systemic discontinuity in the relationship between knowledge, economic value, and institutional power. It does not act as a neutral technology that spreads uniformly, but as a factor that reorganizes the geography of cognitive production, redefining the places where knowledge becomes decision and decision becomes value. In this transition, knowledge ceases to…
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Work Without Coordinates: Artificial Intelligence and the Systemic Crisis of Economic Proximity
The relationship between work and space has for centuries constituted one of the invisible infrastructures of the economy. Physical proximity was not merely a logistical requirement, but an institutional device that enabled coordination, informal learning, social control, and the territorial distribution of value. Artificial intelligence now intervenes in this relationship in a structural manner, accelerating…
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Invisible Labor as the Infrastructure of Value: Artificial Intelligence and the Silent Stratification of the Global Economy
Artificial intelligence intervenes in economic systems as a factor of profound reorganization of value, rather than as a simple automation technology. Its diffusion does not merely modify production processes, but redefines what is considered relevant work, what remains necessary yet unrecognized, and what concentrates decision-making power. In this transition, a silent stratification of value takes…