The Intelligence Shift
AI, power, and the remaking of civilization
For two centuries, intelligence was scarce, and so it commanded a premium. AI is ending that scarcity. In The Intelligence Shift, Jean-Baptiste Gérard argues that as thinking becomes abundant, its price collapses — and the value it once carried does not vanish but moves, in two directions at once: from labour to capital, as the work of the mind is automated, and from the rest of the world to the few who own the models, the compute and the energy behind them, concentrated in a single place. He maps this great capture across the new economy of tokens and power, the geopolitics of dependence and alignment, and the short and long windows of the transition ahead. The Intelligence Shift is a clear-eyed account of where the value goes, who collects it, and what France and Europe still hold that could keep them from merely living through it.
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