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JD Vance on AI: 'No Evidence of Mass Unemployment'
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Dillon plays a clip of Vance saying he's seen 'no evidence in the data' that AI will cause mass unemployment — a claim Dillon finds inexplicable given that AI creators have explicitly and repeatedly warned about this. He then plays Vance's surveillance clip, where Vance says AI is 'fundamentally a communist technology' and worries about social credit scores. Dillon skewers the hypocrisy: Vance is friends with the tech CEOs he claims to fear, and his administration sought to have Palantir merge all federal government databases into a unified citizen profile. The contradiction between Vance's stated concerns and his actual alliances is the defining tension of his political brand.
JD Vance claims he's seen no evidence AI will cause mass unemployment — despite the people who built AI explicitly warning about this constantly. He's on X all day. He's watched Tucker. He just doesn't want to say it.
JD Vance claimed he has seen no evidence or data that AI will lead to mass unemployment, despite warnings from AI creators themselves.
While dismissing mass unemployment fears, JD Vance conceded AI might produce mass inequality — which he described as a different problem.
