Pethokoukis: AI doomers are better at forecasting extinction than job loss
Dan_Jeffries1 · x · 2026-09-10
Jim Pethokoukis takes a swipe at AI safety voices: technologists who confidently forecast human extinction have "demonstrated incompetence" at forecasting human job extinction — a pointed jab at the credibility of doomer predictions versus their track record on labor-market disruption.
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