AI researcher: employment collapse is 'baked in' to today's available tech
davidmanheim · x · 2026-11-15
Responding to jessicata's charge that he's forecasting rather than describing current capability, davidmanheim insists the capability exists today. The reason we don't yet see employment impact comes from factors unrelated to whether the capability exists — 'employment collapse is baked in to the currently available tech.'
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