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Vice President JD Vance: No One Saw This Coming, The Ceasefire Is Real!
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Jun 18, 2026
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Are You Worried About AI Job Loss?
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Vance argues AI CEOs are partly dystopian for marketing reasons, dismisses mass unemployment fears, but warns AI will concentrate wealth in ways that historically trigger social collapse. [1] — JD Vance "Every AI CEO talks about job apocalypse because dystopia is viral marketing. The real danger is what happened in the industrial revolution:…" 1:24:50
AI Surveillance: The Real Threat No One Talks About
Vance doesn't want a social credit system where a tech CEO's AI algorithm determines whether you can buy a beer. A friend once told him AI is 'fundamentally a communist technology' because of its surveillance power. Vance says this is the AI threat that actually keeps him up at night.
Predistribution Over Redistribution
Trump likes the idea of a US sovereign wealth fund taking equity stakes in major AI companies. Vance endorses the underlying logic: redistribution — taxing the rich and giving to the poor — never created a stable society. You have to give workers a seat at the table before the wealth is made, not after.
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