FT's Burn-Murdoch on soaring-growth-meets-soaring-unemployment fuelling anti-AI sentiment
jburnmurdoch · x · 2026-09-10
- FT chief data journalist John Burn-Murdoch discusses space data centres and recent work by economists including Ben Moll, Erik Brynjolfsson, and Ruxandra Teslo.
- He raises the meta-question: headlines of astronomical AI growth alongside soaring unemployment may be fuelling anti-AI sentiment — and asks whether industry figures appreciate that.
- Substantive discussion on AI's macroeconomic impact and the shifting public mood.
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