Alan Thompson Tells Australia's AI Royal Commission the State Should Aim for '100% Unemployment'
dralandthompson · x · 2026-10-16
In his Oct 16 Memo, Dr Alan D. Thompson says his 67-page submission to Australia's first Royal Commission on AI hit #3 on an Amazon bestseller category. The report provocatively argues the state should aim for '100 per cent unemployment' so no one needs paid work to live well. The issue also covers Gemini 4 Argon and the math community's pushback (including Terence Tao) against OpenAI's 719 internal-model math papers, which Thompson calls a lazy, fearful default response.
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