My cousin and I got into it the other night. One of those conversations that starts with "okay but what about China though" and ends with you four tabs deep into Norway's oil fund at 2 AM on a Tuesday. But it stuck with me, because what we were really arguing about wasn't China. It was a question neither of us said out loud: When AI reshapes the global economy over the next decade, which of these systems is actually built to make sure ordinary people benefit?