Again, whether I think this or not is irrelevant to the question the paper is tackling. The question the paper is tackling is how human behavior today (limitin

Again, whether I think this or not is irrelevant to the question the paper is tackling. The question the paper is tackling is how human behavior today (limiting this to modeling interest rates) would change if people generally expected money to transfer from labor to AI. A future where this happens isn’t necessary for this paper to be valuable. Heck, even if people never believe this will actually happen makes this paperback less valuable. As an analogy, let’s say someone wrote a paper on how humanity could respond to a catastrophic hit by a large meteor. This paper would be valuable even if the earth is never hit by a meteor while humans are still here. Further, it would be additionally valuable because the insights gained here could then be applied to other, less catastrophic scenarios, such as a volcano eruption that destroys a single city.