Carson Block warns AI-driven crash will be easier to stabilize than to reorder society
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The Economist
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Short-seller Carson Block argues that while the coming AI-driven market crash will be severe, stabilizing financial markets will be far easier than the harder challenge of reordering society to cope with AI's displacement of highly paid knowledge workers. He warns that aggregate demand will suffer as retirement investment accounts turn net-negative when workers stop contributing and start withdrawing funds.
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· 3 pulledWithin a few years, artificial intelligence will displace a significant portion of the world's highly paid knowledge workers.
Aggregate demand will suffer, but flows into retirement investment accounts will turn net-negative: workers won't just stop paying in, they will need to withdraw funds.
When the crash comes, stabilising markets will be easy compared with reordering society for AI.
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