Resumen de Automata Economicus: assets that create value and the artificial Creative Economy
The paper introduces the automata economicus to contrast with the concept of machina economicus: the latter aims to build software-based models that mimic human agents, environments, systems, and tools (i.e. an artificial homo economicus); whereas the former aims autonomous and creative machines capable of new economic value creation/conversion. The paper states that an economy populated with several automata economicus may give birth to an artificially intelligent creative economy (AICE) and class – in reference to Richard Florida’s creative class (exclusively constituted by humans). Finally, the paper sustains that such automata economicus may eventually make fuzzy the economics’ traditional distinction between capital, land, and labor.
