Critique: AI Execs Predicting 'White Collar Apocalypse' Is Industry's Biggest Self-Own
Dan_Jeffries1 · x · 2026-08-21
Dan Jeffries strongly criticizes AI executives for going on news programs to proclaim the 'end of all white collar work' and the 'end of the world.' He labels this behavior as the industry's biggest 'self-own' in history, noting that such a plot would have been considered ridiculous in 1980s sci-fi. He questions why executives would talk about their own industry in such a catastrophizing manner.
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