AI Just Gave You Superpowers — Now What?

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🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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A new paper, “Some Simple Economics of AGI,” is making the rounds—Web3 with a16z we sat down with author Christian Catalini (MIT Crypto Economics Lab) and Eddy Lazzarin (CTO of a16z crypto), in conversation with Robert Hackett, to unpack what AGI could mean for work and markets.

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0:00.0	You've just been told you have superpowers.
0:02.0	You've just been told you can have multiple employees for $200 a month.
0:05.0	What do you do?
0:06.0	If I was a young person today starting off my career,
0:10.0	I would try to convince my parents to give me some money
0:13.0	to harness a huge swarm of computers and see, like,
0:16.0	can I spend $5,000 of compute productively?
0:20.0	That's the challenge.
0:20.9	We've been talking about a meme sort of in tech world for years now, the idea of like the
0:26.1	one person billion dollar startup, right?
0:28.9	Yeah.
0:29.0	Is this not how that happens?
0:30.3	What we're describing is exactly how that happens.
0:32.3	There's a new surplus.
0:33.7	Learn to exploit it.
0:34.7	That is the lesson for a young person.
0:37.1	Look, the apprenticeship might be dead, but the real work is beginning.
0:42.0	What happens when AI gives everyone the leverage of a team?
0:46.2	In this episode, taken from Web 3 with A16Z,
0:49.9	Christian Catalini and Eddie Lazarin, unpack what that means for work,
0:55.6	startups, and ambition.
0:57.5	Let's get into it.
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