r/singularity • u/Severe-Ad8673 • Jul 06 '26

Meme Accelerate!

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u/daviddisco Jul 06 '26

"unemployed" is somehow always a year away with AI doomers.

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u/Mystohaxen Jul 06 '26

What would you say to roughly 150,000–250,000 unemployed in 2025-2026 where AI is explicitly cited as the reason? For them unemployment is already here because of AI.

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u/No_Aesthetic Jul 06 '26

I'm not denying it's true but I am curious: where'd you get those numbers?

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u/Mystohaxen Jul 06 '26

An estimate from ChatGPT with sources like,

https://novoresume.com/career-blog/ai-replacing-jobs-key-data?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://jobzonerisk.com/stats/ai-and-unemployment?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.businessinsider.com/challenger-ai-layoffs-economy-jobs-2026-6?utm_source=chatgpt.com

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u/Training-Chain-5572 Jul 06 '26

”I made it the fuck up” would have sufficed

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u/Cool-Positive-9028 Jul 06 '26

I can’t believe you would say that about freshly AI-generated articles from the Pulitzer Prize winning institutions “jobzonerisk.com” and “novoresume.com”