Researcher: AI job-displacement discourse is crushing young people's career confidence
_onionesque · x · 2026-10-14
- @onionesque says daily messages show the AI-vs-knowledge-work discourse is seriously undermining the confidence of younger people, worsened by the weak global macro environment.
- He argues prominent commentators are irresponsible on this topic: their claims face no prediction-market accountability, and most talking about AI's impact on pure math don't understand what it would actually entail.
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