A falling labour share is a measurable early sign of the enfeeblement trap, but a lagging one: in Anthropic's scenarios labour's share of each dollar (about 60 cents today) falls noticeably only in the substantial and extreme cases, and the extreme case is the one with self-improving AI already deployed, which is when Greenblatt expects the correction loop to be failing. Governance that waits for the income data arrives after the takeoff it was meant to govern, so the hooks must be built before the signal appears.

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  In this scenario, the main challenge is not achieving economic growth, but making sure the benefits are broadly shared and the costs aren’t unequally dispersed.

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  Today, of each dollar the economy produces, about 60¢ goes to workers and 40¢ go to capital.

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  We find that the labor share falls noticeably in the substantial and extreme scenarios, and the capital share rises.

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