Michael Lewis
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My, my instinct is that like they're all
they're all a little optimistic about the financial returns of AI and probably underselling the social disruption of AI.
A lot of people are going to lose their jobs.
So more pissed off people in our country, anger just goes, ratchets up in our political process.
I could see that happening.
I don't think AI is going to come kill us all.
They like to say that.
It's kind of funny how the AI people, they don't pause to talk about the actual really plausible social consequences of this because they can't do anything about it and we
And if we actually stop and think about it, we might hate them.
They say, we want to stop AI from killing us all.
Like, they go right there.
And it makes them feel, it makes everybody, it kind of just, it kind of distracts everybody from the real problem.
And also makes them feel very important because they're in the middle of something that might kill us all.
But when I think about what is the connection between 08 and like what might happen now, I don't think that.
I think something else.
And what I think is, in 08, even though
The systems, the institutions we had in place, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury, performed a miracle.
I mean, they saved us.
I mean, you can be upset that nobody went to jail.
You can be upset that they bailed out the banks.