Economists push back on Adam Conover's AI doomerism: employment rate hasn't dropped
paulnovosad · x · 2026-09-24
A quote-chain skirmish over AI discourse: Adam Conover argues X-risk talk is a baseless conspiracy distracting from AI's 'real harms' (layoffs, data center pollution, use in Gaza). Economist besttrousers counters with a simple empirical check — if AI were really cutting jobs, the employment rate would have dropped, and it hasn't. Another round in the AI-risk-vs-real-harms debate.
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