Snapshot · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Vance's primary concern about AI is not mass unemployment but extreme wealth concentration, warning it could trigger social instability similar to the industrial revolution's fascist and communist reactions.
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Vance describes looking around at who was most virtuous and finding Christians, leading to a slow return to faith, baptism, and taking his family to church every week. [1] — JD Vance "Vance won every competition life offered — Yale Law, good girlfriend, rising career — and realised he wasn't happy or good. Looking around …" 1:24:10
Every AI CEO talks about job apocalypse because dystopia is viral marketing. The real danger is what happened in the industrial revolution: rich people got dramatically richer, and that triggered fascism and communism across Europe. Vance says the US and UK were the only Western nations to escape that — and there's no guarantee they will again.
Vance claims the UK and US were the only two major Western nations to successfully avoid either a fascist or communist revolution in response to the industrial revolution.
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