Posted on 02/12/2026 8:07:16 AM PST by Mariner
In 1997, IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeated the reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov. In 2023, ChatGPT passed the bar exam. And last year, Google DeepMind clinched gold at the International Math Olympiad.
These milestones are only expected to accelerate, with some business leaders, including SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, predicting artificial general intelligence—AI that is able to meet or surpass human intelligence—could arrive as early as this year. While avid sci-fi fans and business leaders are thrilled by the technology’s potential, others caution about the economic downsides.
Salman Khan, the CEO of Khan Academy and vision steward at TED—two organizations that provide free online education services for more than 200 million users globally—predicts the AI revolution will hit harder and faster than most are predicting (although the AI doomers are getting louder in early 2026). And while AI experts like Geoffrey Hinton, the British computer scientist widely known as the “godfather of AI,” have warned the technology could trigger mass unemployment, Khan said even a 10% decrease could bring the burn.
“If white-collar work were to shrink even 10%,” Khan told Fortune, “it’s going to feel like a depression.”
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If you're wondering why business is willing to invest $600+ billion per year...building these enormous datacenters pulling as much power as a city...it's because they know they are going to stop paying YOU.
10's of millions of you.
And we need more H-1Bs?
It’s starting to feel like AI is the new Covid…
C-Suite MBA types hardest hit :)
Because: Garbage in, garbage out.
If you can’t beat em’...
Flip burgers and put all your money in the S & P 500. It won’t get you laid but you’ll be ok down the road.
I remember my 3rd grade teacher telling us;
1. There will be flying cars.
2. Computers and robots would do all the hard/dangerous work.
3. We would have leisure time out the ying-yang.
What a beautiful future we had!
Idle hands are the devil’s workshop.
We see that now in the inner cities, where there are no longer any factory jobs. Just a lot of folks standing around on corners.
I suppose we will eventually see that in the suburbs as well.
And no, I don’t have any easy solutions.
🙁
Boom and Bust. The great glorified chess program era.
Trump Tower Deep State, surrounded by elites.
While that maybe true remember that its an election year and there will be a steady drumbeat of negative stories about the economy.
I.G.Y. by Steely Dan
Standing tough under stars and stripes
We can tell
This dream’s in sight
You’ve got to admit it
At this point in time that it’s clear
The future looks bright
On that train all graphite and glitter
Undersea by rail
Ninety minutes from New York to Paris
Well by ‘76 we’ll be A-OK
What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free
What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free
Get your ticket to that wheel in space
While there’s time
The fix is in
You’ll be a witness to that game of chance in the sky
You know we’ve got to win
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Here at home we’ll play in the city
Powered by the sun
Perfect weather for a streamlined world
There’ll be spandex jackets one for everyone
What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free
What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free
On that train all graphite and glitter
Undersea by rail
Ninety minutes from New York to Paris
(more leisure for artists everywhere)
A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision
We’ll be clean when their work is done
We’ll be eternally free yes and eternally young
What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free
What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free
What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free
What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free
A trip down memory lane:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Moon_Flights_Club
Fifty years later all we get is endless promises and press releases.
Forget coding, learn how to fix toilets!
Blue collar jobs will be the last to be replaced by AI/robotics.
Because some hippy chick got a bad deal you think this juggernaut can be stopped?
AI WILL BE 90% OF LAWYERS IN 5-10 YEARS.
My wife was a title examiner for 15 years. The company she worked for replaced over 20 flesh and blood employees with AI in the last year and a half.
In the short term, a lot of already wealthy people will make even more money by eliminating their human capital in favor of AI.
The problem will come when there aren’t enough consumers with money to buy their products because they’re all unemployed. Even if all the tradespeople still have jobs, that’s likely not enough of a market to sustain many, if not most, companies.
Probably going to be a global problem.
Even if it turns out that AI can’t replace all those people, they’ll be fired long before the psychopaths in charge figure it out in their race to the bottom, and the damage will already be done. We’re already seeing this.
Then if people do get rehired by the smarter psychopaths, it will be for pennies on the dollar because they’re desperate for work, so they still won’t have the incomes to restore the consumer markets. We’re also starting to see some of this in the job market already.
I’m hoping to be retired before the worst hits, but it’s not looking good.
Just because we don't like to admit the latter axiom doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
I don't see how this is going to swell our MAGA ranks at all.
It will be interesting what this does to prices paying robots 3-4 dollars/hour ???
Plumbers and Electricians.
If anyone can afford them.
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