AI RESEARCH
Post-AGI Economies: Autonomy and the First Fundamental Theorem of Welfare Economics
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2604.21216v1 Announce Type: cross The First Fundamental Theorem of Welfare Economics assumes that welfare-bearing agents are autonomous and implicitly relies on a binary distinction between autonomy and instrumentality. Welfare subjects are those who have autonomy and therefore the capacity to choose and enter into utility comparisons, while everything else does not.