Why median companies haven't felt AI's economic impact: the locked-room fax machine meme
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-09-10
Jack Rae shared a viral meme explaining why AI hasn't produced larger economic impacts yet: the median company's AI workflow is "John Searle in a locked room with a TI-83, a printed copy of the Llama 2 weights, and a fax machine" out of fear of IP exposure to Anthropic. Tech adoption faces headwinds—though frontier lab researchers adopt almost instantly.
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