Why are many AI companies worth trillions in the stock market?​

 

Anticipated profits from replacing labor.

 

Publicly, AI companies say their tools will “help people work smarter.” But look at their stock prices and you’ll see what investors truly expect: they are betting that artificial intelligence will eventually capture the value of human labor itself.

 

Again, global output is about $112 trillion a year, and roughly half of that—$55 trillion—is paid to workers. If AI systems can automate even a small share of those tasks, the profits could reach trillions of dollars a year for the companies that build and own the technology.

That belief—quietly but powerfully—explains why AI developers are valued in the multi-trillion-dollar range.

 

In other words, the market already knows what’s at stake. It sees a once-in-history chance to redirect a portion of the world’s labor income into capital income. The question is not whether AI can create that value—but who it will create it for.

 

RAISE-UP’s mission is to make sure this new abundance serves everyone: to harness AI’s power to lower the costs of education, healthcare, and housing, to create meaningful work for all who want it, and to ensure that prosperity grows from the bottom up—not just from the stock ticker down.