AI pundit predicts the 2020s will be the last decade of widespread poverty
Dr_Singularity · x · 2026-10-28
DrSingularity argues in a long post that widespread financial insecurity will end by the 2030s: AI-driven breakthroughs are accelerating in math and physics, with chemistry and medicine next, and automation, robotics, and AI-driven engineering will carry that progress into the physical world. Without AI this would take decades; with AI, he expects the 2020s to be the last decade where poverty and paycheck-to-paycheck stress remain the norm.
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