Noah Smith
Economics writer at Noahpinion; frames AI firm size through transaction costs, solopreneurship, fraud, and trust verification between AI-mediated counterparties.
Noah Smith is an economics writer at Noahpinion. In the AI-outsourcing piece, he uses transaction cost theory to ask whether AI will shrink companies into solopreneurs or instead make large firms more valuable because long-term trust between AI-mediated counterparties becomes expensive to verify.1
His useful contribution to this wiki is not another generic "AI will change work" claim, but a mechanism: the size of firms depends on whether AI lowers or raises the cost of finding, monitoring, verifying, and trusting external contractors. That makes his argument a bridge between AI Labor Market, Organizational Moats, and AI Outsourcing Transaction Costs.1
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