Economists and geopolitical analysts rarely study artificial intelligence the same way: one looks at how AI changes jobs and markets, the other at who controls computing power, data, and rules. This article argues that split does not hold up. Drawing on ideas about automation, cheaper prediction, and slow-diffusing technology, and research on redistribution politics, platform polarisation, and lost shared knowledge, it shows the two are tied together at every step. It then turns to........

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