[Animats]

Right, as noted above, last week The Economist finally said it's real. That's a reversal from their previous position. The Economist likes to look at actuals, which always trail real time, rather than projections. Now they can see it happening in past data.

AI deployment is going much faster than previous industrial revolutions, such as railroads and tractors and even computers. When these things take a generation, they get absorbed. When they take less time than a college education, there's a big jobs problem.

[zymhan]

> There is no evidence yet in the labour-market data of AI destroying many jobs.

Literally from the article https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/05/14/prepare-for-an-...

[conception]

Climate change for the economy. With a similar lack of action before everything is terrible I’m sure.