AI practitioners react with gallows humor to the ~20-year unemployment forecast
gandamu_ml · x · 2026-10-07
gandamuml responds to tenobrus's claim that universal technological unemployment is roughly two decades away with "laughing and crying" — a brief show of grim agreement within the ongoing thread about AI art ethics and broader obsolescence.
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