# kaal:claim:6421319-034

**Claim.** AI driven abundance generates enormous aggregate surplus, but the surplus accrues disproportionately to owners of AI capital, including compute infrastructure, proprietary models, training data, and the organizational capacity to deploy them.

**Type.** empirical  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- supported by IMF findings that higher capital returns may increase wealth inequality

**Source quote.**

> The dilemma is structural: AI-driven abundance generates enormous aggregate surplus, but the surplus accrues disproportionately to owners of AI capital, including compute infrastructure, proprietary models, training data, and the organizational capacity to deploy them.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *The Collapse of Scarcity Economics* (2026), VIII.D. Capital Concentration and the Predistributive Imperative, page 32

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6421319

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**Failure mode.** Surplus Capture by AI Capital  (family: inequality-and-access-divide)

**Topics.** ai-and-agents

**Keywords.** capital-concentration, wealth-inequality, ai-capital, distribution

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