Matteo MacDermant warns free-running automation could trigger severe unemployment
cccalum · x · 2026-07-22
Matteo MacDermant argues that if automation is allowed to run freely, severe unemployment could follow.
At the same time, he does not think full automation is close, so the post sits in the gap between near-term labor disruption and a still-distant end state.
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