Agreed, but i'm strongly convinced an AI is not a good approach to the problem. What problem would it be solving, and with what criteria for the solution? An AI is just a really fast and really dumb computer looking at abstract numbers, and as such what numbers (weights) and why we feed it is what matters.

I would argue two things, with which you may or may not agree:

- capitalist competition drains "human labor" with little benefits for society: cooperation across organizations and fields could be incentivized ; we have an abundance of skilled people in many fields, but all of them are isolated working for a manager/boss (and their interest) not cooperating for the interest of society at large, and that's a waste of "human labor"

- "qualified labor" is as valuable for skillsharing as for actual problem solving; it enables more "qualified labor" to emerge (reducing the bus factor) ; companionship and other forms of crafts guilds and workers cooperatives have a lot to offer to society which no private company (with shareholders and managers) could ever offer

> Paying them is one such way, though I do not claim that the only possible way in the universe.

Yeah, that was exactly my point. Being born and raised in a capitalist economy, most of us fail to see what we could do without money entirely. But throughout most of history humanity has lived without any form of currency so ti's not the only way to think about incentives.