CONCEPT
Deployment-Phase Institutions
The specific institutional architectures — educational, labor, social insurance, governance — that redistribute the gains of a technological revolution from the installation phase's concentration toward the deployment phase's broad benefit.
Deployment-phase institutions are the mechanisms through which every previous golden age redirected the gains of the installation phase toward broadly shared prosperity. The Victorian factory legislation, universal primary education, sanitation infrastructure, and the gradual expansion of the franchise — these constituted the deployment-phase institutional architecture of the industrial revolution. The New Deal financial regulation, the Bretton Woods system, the welfare state, the G.I. Bill, the social compact between capital and labor — these constituted the deployment-phase architecture of the oil and mass-production age. Each golden age required institutional innovation designed for the specific technology it accompanied. The AI age requires its own deployment-phase architecture, and the architecture does not yet exist at scale.
In The You On AI Field Guide
Perez's framework identifies four domains in which deployment-phase institutional innovation is required for the AI turning point. The first is education — shifting from training students to perform specific cognitive tasks (which AI commoditizes) to developing the judgment, questioning, ethical reasoning, and