Dan Jeffries slams AI jobs doom predictions: "fear is the point"
Dan_Jeffries1 · x · 2026-09-10
Dan Jeffries pushed back on Andrew Yang's warnings about AI risk, noting that Yang's earlier jobs-apocalypse prediction gave way to a jobs boom. He argues such forecasters never reflect on being wrong because fear itself is the goal — a tool to control people and galvanize votes.
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