Economist Warns: Not Adopting AI Poses Greater Unemployment Risk Than Adoption
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-08-22
Responding to the anti-AI sentiment, economist Afinetheorem argued that while AI leaders have claimed AI will cause job loss, the greater economic risk lies in not diffusing AI. He warned that an industrial base competing against entities with superior technology would face severe disadvantages, urging the public to take this seriously.
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