Silicon Valley’s AI ‘tokenmaxxing’ obsession has a big problem – and philosophers saw it coming
- Written by Victoria Lorrimar, Director, Centre for Technology and Human Futures, University of Notre Dame Australia
Some time earlier this year, an employee at tech giant Meta built a system to track how much each staff member was using artificial intelligence (AI).
Named “Claudeonomics” after the Claude chatbot, the system created a leaderboard ranked by the number of tokens each user was exchanging with AI models, with leaders given titles such as...





