The AI monopoly price you don’t see

AI can stay free while the monopoly problem moves elsewhere: data, prediction and switching costs decide who captures the value. We revisit consumer surplus under monopoly, then remove the price tag. Why every interaction is a second transaction, why an export button is not portability, and why owning your data can still leave you economically locked in. Plus the exit test to run before adoption: if I leave tomorrow, how much of the value I created here comes with me? The question is not whether it is free, but whether you remain free to leave.Send us a text. AI Frontiers is produced by ELECTE, the AI-powered analytics platform for European SMEs. The AI analysis 100,000+ readers trust. Join them:  - Subscribe to the ELECTE newsletter - Official Merch Written and hosted by Fabio Lauria.