With over $1 trillion spent on AI, the public vision still looks vague
ben_j_todd · x · 2026-07-28
The poster argues that humanity is already more than $1 trillion into the AI buildout, yet still lacks a concrete, persuasive vision of what all this spending is going to produce or how society should respond.
The point is less about any single model launch and more about the mismatch between the scale of investment and the thinness of the public narrative around the future being built.
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