The Henry George School Podcast · Henry George School of Social Science

167. Symposia - 2025 Annual Conference Keynote Address

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Harrison declares that transferring our current human systems into the metaverse's algorithms is 'committing a crime against humanity.'

In this keynote address from the 2025 Henry George School conference, economist Fred Harrison presents a provocative thesis linking ancient economic systems of rent-seeking to modern artificial intelligence. He argues that the 'artificial intelligence' sustaining exploitative economic structures for millennia is now being encoded into the metaverse, potentially leading to the end of humanity unless Georgist economic principles are adopted.

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