Economist roasts Star Wars: a world with AI still full of sitting-at-computers jobs
AndyMasley · x · 2026-11-15
Citing economist Adam Ozimek's observation that Star Wars, despite being set in a world with AI, depicts plenty of sitting-at-computers jobs, Andy Masley argues that once you think through how AI would actually work in an economy, most sci-fi portrayals of AI look more unrealistic than the spaceships themselves.
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