Would an AI eliminate billionaires if it ran the economy?
Only if told to optimize for well-being or opportunity distribution. An AI told to maximize GDP or shareholder value might preserve or even entrench billionaires, since concentrated capital can fund large projects. The outcome depends entirely on the objective function humans encode — AI has no independent preference for equality.
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