Beyond Efficiency: Artificial Intelligence as a Driver for Resilient Market Organisations
Enrico Moch · East African Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies · 2025
Artificial intelligence is increasingly becoming a regulatory factor. While efficiency has long been regarded as the guiding principle of economic systems, crises show the vulnerability of highly optimised structures. This paper examines the conditions under which AI contributes to the resilience of market organisations, understood as the ability to deal productively with uncertainty. Theoretical perspectives by Hayek and Taleb emphasise decentralised knowledge processing and antifragile learning processes. Empirical case studies from platform markets and critical infrastructure illustrate that AI either increases efficiency or enables stability, depending on how it is institutionally embedded. In platform markets, short-term optimisation dominates, while infrastructure systems rely on redundancy, scenario diversity and human correction capability. The results show that resilience does not come from technology but from system architecture. AI can become an adaptive module in dynamic markets if uncertainty is understood as a structural condition rather than an error