Scarcity Was Never Real: The Unsettling Vision of the First AI Economist
By Dr. Adrian Keller, Boston — MIT
Economists have always had one unshakable article of faith: scarcity. It is the rock on which supply and demand is built, the foundation of markets, the justification for prices, wages, and trade-offs.
Now imagine someone telling you that scarcity is not real. That it was never real.
That is the claim of Dr. Shehrezad Faruk Czar, a man some are calling — with a mix of awe and alarm — the world’s first AI Economist. Through his company, Artificial Intelligence & Quantum Economists, Inc., he is attempting to merge economics with quantum physics, creating a new discipline he calls Econo-Physics.
It sounds outrageous. But outrageous claims have a way of reshaping history.
Economics as Physics
Czar’s central idea is that economics behaves more like physics than policy. Currencies are currents. Productivity is entropy management. Markets rise and collapse like unstable stars.
From this perspective, economics is not a human-made system but a natural force — one that can be understood, modeled, and potentially rewritten using the principles of quantum mechanics.
He calls this process the quantumization of economics. In it, value can exist in superposition (multiple outcomes at once), markets can be entangled across borders, and productivity can replicate infinitely rather than diminish.
At the heart of his vision is the Infinite Chip™, a proposed system for storing and expanding economic value at the particle level. To many, it sounds fantastical. To Czar, it is inevitable.
Why AI Matters
For decades, Czar’s ideas were ahead of their time. Then artificial intelligence arrived.
Unlike traditional economists who rely on historical data, AI can model millions of potential futures simultaneously. It doesn’t care about tidy equations; it thrives in probabilities. In other words, it already operates the way Czar believes economies should.
This is why he is called the first AI Economist. Not because he uses AI — everyone does — but because he sees economics itself as something only AI can fully realize.
The Coming Storm
Czar has promised to publish 61 white papers challenging not just economics, but physics itself. If those papers hold, they could embarrass entire faculties. They could force Harvard, MIT, and Oxford to rewrite their curricula from scratch.
I confess: the thought is unnerving. What if he is right? What if scarcity is not law but illusion? Then capitalism as we know it — prices, debt, even money itself — becomes a relic.
That is the storm on the horizon.
Why You Should Doubt Him
Skepticism is healthy. Infinite productivity? Infinite derivatives? An economy immune to collapse? It sounds like fantasy.
Economics is littered with grand visions that collapsed in practice. And yet, dismissing Czar outright feels dangerous. We mocked AI once too. Now it writes code, drafts legal briefs, and designs medicine.
The line between fantasy and inevitability is thinner than we think.
Between Madness and Genius
If Czar is wrong, his ideas will vanish into the dustbin of eccentric theory.
But if he is right, then the discipline of economics will look primitive, the way Newtonian mechanics looks next to relativity. Scarcity will be remembered not as a truth, but as a collective mistake.
And Dr. Shehrezad Faruk Czar will be remembered as the man who merged money with matter — the world’s first AI Economist.
The unsettling part is not that he might be wrong. It is that he might be right.
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