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EMERGENCY DEBATE: The Economy Is About To Collapse! The 2026 AI Crisis Nobody Sees Coming
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Kevin O'Leary claimed that in the last 19 months China built 400 gigawatts of new power capacity from coal while US data center construction was stymied by regulation.
The CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Tesla have all said publicly that AI will eliminate most current jobs and push unemployment toward 20%. These are the people with the least incentive to say their products will cause harm — and they are saying it anyway. The public is being sugar-coated.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated in March 2021 that AI will probably replace most of the jobs people do today and that entire job categories will be totally gone.
Anthropic founder Dario Amodei predicted AI could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within five years, potentially pushing unemployment to 20%.
Kevin O'Leary cited Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warning that if the US doesn't build more compute capacity within six months, China's DeepSeek will overtake US AI capabilities.
Cenk Uygur illustrates the UBI shortfall: a coder earning $120,000 would receive only $36,000 per year under a $3,000/month UBI scheme — a devastating income collapse.
A coder earning $120,000 a year who loses their job to AI would receive just $36,000 annually under a $3,000/month UBI — and even that assumes UBI gets passed instantly, which it won't. The transition from good middle-class salary to poverty-level income replacement is not a safety net; it is a catastrophe.
