Jeffrey Sachs
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basically positive, actually, in that we can do more.
We can be more clever.
We can have more sophisticated drug discovery or better healthcare diagnostics or many other things.
But it's not going to fall equally.
It's going to immiserize part of our society unless we actually decide for the first time in more than half a century to act like a society rather than to act like a group of individuals out in brutal competition with each other.
But we don't even have that kind of understanding in our political discourse right now.
But the AI is moving forward relentlessly with or without it.
And by the way, the number of meetings every day in every sector talking about loss of jobs, reshuffling of the workforce, this is happening everywhere right now.
And we don't have any public information.
policy framework.
And we won't under Trump.
This is something way beyond him.
But I would just add one more point to that, which is that specifically,
The surveillance state and specifically the war economy are big business precisely for the AI industry.
So it's not only incidental that they want to crack down.
These are gold mines for them.
More war?
Phenomenal.
Look at the biggest booming stock market in the world right now is Israel because it's basically a war machine.
It's basically a surveillance, intelligence, and military machine.