whurley mocks AI doomerism: 4% unemployment, no evidence for the job-loss thesis
whurley · x · 2026-09-15
whurley argues the AI discourse jumped from the testable claim "AI takes jobs" to "extinction" without the job thesis ever being proven. Citing 4% unemployment and a Yale finding of no clear economy-wide AI job wipeout, he calls extinction talk "a vibe with a press kit."
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