AnalysisPolicySeptember 7, 2026

Essay recounts a writer's shift from AI optimism to doomer concern

Personal essay walks through the author's changed views on AI, starting with economics: automation has eliminated 99% of jobs people did in 1790 without mass unemployment. He argues that if AI becomes truly general and vastly smarter, faster, and cheaper than humans, there may be nothing left for people to do but live on UBI.

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