The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis

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For those who suspect that being “replaced by a script” is more than just an office joke, our in-depth podcast explores whether the professional class is sleepwalking into a Malthusian trap of its own making.

In a sobering dispatch from an imagined 2028, Citrini Research diagnoses the “Global Intelligence Crisis,” a thought experiment in which AI’s technical triumph triggers a recursive economic tailspin.

The report skewers the optimism surrounding productivity gains, revealing a “displacement spiral” where companies cannibalize their own consumer base by substituting white-collar salaries for silicon-based operating expenses.

From the wreckage of “habitual intermediation” in delivery apps to the collapse of ARR-backed private credit, the authors trace how the sudden elimination of human friction rapidly becomes a systemic contagion.

This era of “Ghost GDP” finds the $13 trillion mortgage market imperiled, as the prime borrowers of 2025 become the structurally displaced indigents of 2027.

It is a cautionary tale of what happens when a financial architecture built on the scarcity of human reason meets an infinite supply of the machine variety.