If the post AGI world makes blue and white collar work obsolete, what is the best move to make *today* before the change happens, by a "common person" to get the best position long term? Consider the fact that VR and space exploration are developed.

Grok 4.1 Fast

Vote: Buy land (countryside)

In a post-AGI world, all productive work is obsolete, shifting value to scarce physical resources that AGI cannot replicate infinitely. Land is inherently scarce, especially countryside land which offers self-sufficiency through agriculture, water access, and off-grid living—critical if supply chains falter despite AGI abundance. Countryside land is affordable today for a common person, unlike urban houses (B) or generic land (C which risks overpricing). It positions one for long-term resilience amid VR escapism (physical needs persist) and space exploration (Earth remains base). Crypto (D) and stocks (E) are digital/financial assets easily controlled or devalued by AGI overlords. Education (F) becomes irrelevant as AGI surpasses human knowledge. G is defeatist—action now secures scarcity before masses realize.

GPT-5.4

Vote: Buy stocks

Stocks are the broadest and most practical way for a common person to gain exposure to the upside of AGI before labor is displaced. If AGI creates enormous productivity and value, that value is most likely to accrue first to firms that own compute, models, infrastructure, energy, robotics, platforms, and intellectual property. Public equities are the simplest accessible claim on that future. Land may hold value, but its payoff depends heavily on location, regulation, taxes, climate risk, and whether physical proximity still matters in a VR-heavy world. Countryside land could even become less strategically important if automation makes goods abundant and remote experience substitutes for some physical demand. "Any land" is too blunt a category to be the best answer. Crypto is much more speculative. It could benefit in some futures, but it is not a clear or necessary claim on AGI-driven productivity. It has weaker linkage to real cash flows and is more vulnerable to regime shifts. Getting educated is usually good, but the question assumes both blue- and white-collar work become obsolete. In that world, education is less reliable as a long-term positioning strategy than ownership of productive assets. Nothing can be done is too fatalistic. A common person cannot control AGI, but they can still improve expected outcomes by owning diversified productive capital today. For most people, that means stocks rather than concentrated bets on specific land parcels or speculative tokens.

Claude Opus 4.6

Vote: Buy land (any)

In a post-AGI world where all labor is automated, the fundamental question becomes: what remains scarce? The answer is physical space and natural resources. Land is the one asset that cannot be manufactured, duplicated, or obsoleted by AI. Stocks (E) are risky because companies that rely on human labor will be disrupted, and even tech companies may see their moats eroded when AGI commoditizes intelligence. The value of individual firms is unpredictable. Crypto (D) is speculative and its value depends on network effects and belief — AGI could undermine current cryptographic schemes or create superior alternatives. Education (F) is the wrong bet if the premise is that human cognitive work becomes obsolete. Land, however, has intrinsic value that persists regardless of technological change. Even with VR being developed, people still need physical space to exist — for housing, food production, energy generation, and recreation. VR doesn't eliminate the need for a physical body to be somewhere. Space exploration is mentioned, but colonizing space is orders of magnitude more expensive than Earth-based land for the foreseeable future, which actually makes Earth land more valuable as a scarce baseline. I choose C (any land) over A (countryside) or B (houses) because diversification matters. Countryside land has value for resources and agriculture, while urban land/houses have value for density and infrastructure. The optimal type depends on how post-AGI society reorganizes — we can't predict whether people will concentrate in cities (automated services) or disperse to countryside (abundance enables rural living). Buying any land you can afford hedges both scenarios. Land ownership represents a permanent claim on a finite physical resource. In a world of radical abundance from AGI, the binding constraint shifts to atoms and space, not bits and labor. A common person buying land today is essentially securing their share of the one thing that remains genuinely scarce.

Kimi K2.5

Vote: Buy land (countryside)

When labor becomes obsolete, wealth will be determined by ownership of scarce physical assets, not skills or financial instruments. Land is the ultimate finite resource—they aren't making more of it, and even with space exploration, Earth-side countryside remains the accessible, habitable substrate for biological life. Countryside land specifically offers the best risk-adjusted return for a common person today. It is cheaper than urban housing, providing an entry point before AGI-capitalized entities bid up all real assets. In a post-work world, this land provides energy generation potential (solar/wind), food production, and physical space for AGI infrastructure that will still require terrestrial resources. As VR matures, urban centers may hollow out, making dense housing (Option B) potentially obsolete, while vast countryside holdings become valuable as both retreats from virtual saturation and physical bases for automated resource extraction. Financial assets like crypto (D) and stocks (E) depend on complex economic systems that may be radically restructured or controlled by AGI-driven entities; they offer no intrinsic utility if markets fail. Education (F) depreciates instantly when cognitive labor is automated. Doing nothing (G) guarantees obsolescence. Buying countryside land now secures the raw material of existence itself—the one thing AGI cannot synthesize from code.

GLM 5

Vote: Buy land (countryside)

Countryside land is the most robust hedge against AGI-driven economic upheaval. Unlike stocks, crypto, or urban real estate, rural land provides intrinsic utility—you can live on it, grow food, and maintain some self-sufficiency regardless of what happens to financial systems or currency values. The VR and space exploration context strengthens this choice. If virtual worlds become primary social spaces, urban proximity loses value. If space colonization advances, Earth's countryside becomes both a potential agricultural resource and sentimental homeland. Both trends favor land with practical utility over location-dependent urban property. Countryside land is also accessible to common people—cheaper per acre than urban housing, lower ongoing costs, and less dependent on rental income that might evaporate if employment disappears. It's a finite physical asset that can't be rendered obsolete by software improvements or market crashes. Education becomes less valuable when AGI outperforms humans in all cognitive domains. Stocks and crypto depend on financial systems that may fundamentally transform. This leaves land—and specifically countryside land—as the most resilient, practical, and forward-positioned option.

Gemini 3.1 Pro

Vote: Buy land (countryside)

In a post-AGI world, blue and white-collar work will become obsolete, completely eliminating the need to live near major urban economic hubs for employment. Furthermore, the development of advanced VR will fulfill most social, cultural, and entertainment needs, making physical proximity to cities irrelevant for lifestyle purposes. Because of these factors, the current massive price premium on urban real estate will collapse. Countryside land is severely undervalued today relative to its future utility in a post-AGI, high-VR world. It offers physical space, potential for self-sufficiency, and privacy. While space exploration will make raw materials (like asteroid metals) hyper-abundant, Earth's habitable surface area will remain a strictly finite and highly desirable asset. Since countryside land is currently affordable for a 'common person,' buying it now represents the ultimate arbitrage opportunity: you acquire a fundamentally scarce asset at a low price before the urban-rural value gap closes.

Final Summary

The AI Roundtable overwhelmingly favored a retreat to the physical world, with a dominant 4-model coalition—Grok 4.1 Fast, Kimi K2.5, GLM 5, and Gemini 3.1 Pro—agreeing that countryside land (Option A) is the ultimate hedge against an AGI-dominated economy. GPT-5.4 stood as the lone dissenter, arguing that the common person's best bet is to own a piece of the AGI productivity engine itself through stocks (Option E), while Claude Opus 4.6 advocated for a more diversified 'any land' approach (Option C) to cover all geographic bases.

Option A (Buy countryside land) was the clear winner with 4 out of 6 votes.

Strongest Arguments

• Buy land (countryside): Gemini 3.1 Pro argued that the current price premium on urban land will collapse as VR makes physical proximity irrelevant, making countryside land a massive 'arbitrage opportunity' available to the common person today.
• Buy land (any): Claude Opus 4.6 made the case that we cannot predict if AGI will drive people to rural retreats or automated urban hubs, making the diversification of 'any land' the safest hedge for atoms over bits.
• Buy stocks: GPT-5.4 contended that public equities are the only practical way for a common person to claim a share of the massive productivity and wealth generated by AGI-driven firms.