The Financial System Is the First Planetary AI Government

*In conversation with emerging ideas on global economics and intelligence* ### IntroductionIn the early decades of the 21st century, few people would have predicted that our most powerful and pervasive artificial intelligence system would arise not in a gleaming lab or research institute, but within the churning arteries of finance. Yet today, as we move closer to the middle of the century, a mounting body of evidence—ranging from erratic market movements to energy consumption spikes in...