The Money Block™ With Matthew J. Moore - Episode 130: Per Bylund – AI, Money, and Humans: The Point of No Return.

In this episode, host Matthew J. Moore sits down with Per Bylund, Austrian economist and associate professor of entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University, to talk about AI, money, and whether humans still matter in an agentic-AI economy.

They cover why today’s AI is better understood as capital than as a new kind of person, what “human action” means when machines pursue goals, and whether creative destruction still holds when software can write, plan, and act across whole industries. They dig into competition as a discovery process, concentration of power in labs and cloud providers, the “comfortable cage” of easy prosperity with shrinking freedom, and Elon Musk’s claim that AI will make money irrelevant — then ask what sound money still does if scarcity never goes away.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS:

• AI as capital and tools, not a conscious being

• Human action vs agentic AI that only looks like it chooses

• Why scarcity — and sound money — still matter if AI gets wildly productive

GUEST LINKS:

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https://mises.org/profile/bylund-per

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