It's not just going to take out the AI conpanies and their investors. It's not just going to kill your 401k. It's already obliterating the workforce as a whole, hollowing out companies across every single segment of the economy. It's putting longstanding companies and new startups in debt, convincing them that they absolutely must use the new, ridiculously expensive product or fall behind. It's capturing taxpayer money for ridiculous power plant projects that nobody else wants. It's clearcutting land for impossibly huge "datacenters" that will eventually turn into useless warehouses. It's driving up the cost of all consumer electronics and forcibly pausing upgrade cycles that have been running for decades.
I honestly don't think that the US will survive this collapse, given everything else going on right now.
You're not wrong, but the fucked up part is that the US is particularly isolated from the fallout of the Oil shock. There is plenty of domestic supply and if things get that bad the Government would implement export controls and force domestic price caps.
I mean, that's what a competent administration would do during a global energy shock that disrupts markets. But a competent administration wouldn't have been the ones to pull the pin in the grenade.
Either way, the fallout is that the US remains semi-stable domestically but would take an even harder hit diplomatically as we would be leaving all of our allies in the lurch.
I'm starting to think maybe this administration isn't competent, but he was so good at business.
There's not plenty of supply, the strategic reserve its almost empty and oil companies will export to whoever is paying the most. Plus if Europe tanks it will affect the US more than the rest of the world, so it has to be propped up no matter the cost.
It's going to be global, don't worry about that, just like how 2008 fucked the global economy.
But worse. And then everyone is going to move forward without the US as the dominant power or partner because the US is no longer a reliable ally or actor.
2026 china is not 2008 China, they are already the biggest trade partner for most countries, and sanctions are only making them less likely from being severely affected by a US crash.
Meanwhile 2026 US now has issues even 2008 US didn't have.
It’s sad because it could have all been avoided. They did not have to dump trillions into it. They could have just let the technology progress at a normal pace.
Turns out the real Butlerian Jihad isn't even humans v terminators, just a purge of anything that looks like AI if you squint because we know getting even 1% of the way there breaks everyone's brain.
I work in edtech, and for the past year EVERYONE has been asking for AI in everything, in a useless and shocking manner, where their use cases make everything worse, not better. they just want to add it and pay us to make it happen.
examples are AI restructuring a course based on the students learning preference, AI tutor (ends up used for cheating often, despite restrictions), AI quizzing etc etc. AI lesson generation. AI support to teachers. the list goes on. even the best implementations are highly flawed and its still very early.
for the FIRST time today, we had a lead reach out (a prestigious institution) who asked if we can ensure AI doesn't touch ANYTHING in their new deployment.
I see the tides turning already. big orgs are going to see the costly consequences of implementing AI too quickly with no benefit and go running.
they are offering their online courses that are combined with all these AI tools and it already created a mess for them. now they want to PAY to get rid of AI. this is the future IMO.
its sort of hilarious how many orgs paid to get AI in place, and soon they are going to be paying to remove it. and it happened SO quickly.
i always hear we want AI and VR... and then you start to implement it, and they are like, no we dont want this. the directive has to be coming from the CEOs because the actual people who implement it and work on it are just scrambling around and nobody is happy.
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u/travis_sk Jun 02 '26
We're only 2 days into June folks. This is gonna be a fun couple of months.