This is an interesting piece of research that has been doing the rounds. It speculates about the financial effects of AI displacing workers. In essence, what happens when AI-induced unemployment and wage reduction lead to reduced demand in the economy, even as AI makes sectors more productive.

This kind of speculation is nothing new; people have been wondering about this scenario for years. What interests me about this particular piece of research is the reaction to it. Predictably, Big Tech’s defenders have come out criticizing it, yet all around us are the signs that it’s coming true.

Sure, I changed it to Time, who I think did the original reporting.

Open source AI is the equal of anything investors are pouring hundreds of billions into. You can have its expertise for free. Soon, that expertise will do the work any lawyer or doctor can do. Everyone on planet Earth will be able to have that for free.

It strikes me the author has it right on AI tending towards abundance.

This article feel AI written.

I see a lot of people getting AI to rewrite their writing for ‘polish’, which might be what is happening here. However, looking at the totality of their thought across their other articles, it definitely feels like this originates from a human.

China has a well developed plan for Space stretching out into the 2050s and beyond, and sticks to it.

Every new US administration chops & changes with NASA. That’s how its ended up with its current nonsensical half Artemis/half-Space X plans for the Moon that are destined to fail.

Fingers crossed that ‘third time is a charm’ for ispace & they succeed with Hakuto-R Mission 3.

Yes, there’s a theory that it’s elite-over production (a society that has an excess supply of potential elite members relative to its ability to absorb them into the power structure.) that drives revolutions, not working class discontent. The French & Russian revolutions can both be looked at that way.

The batteries were charged by the solar panels.

No, I edited the sub-heading.

On February 1, 2026, California’s batteries bridged the solar gap with seamless precision. After discharging through the night until sunrise, they spent the daylight hours charging, then pivoted back to exporting power well past midnight—effectively sustaining the state on solar energy for a full 24-hour cycle.

The cognitive dissonance it must take to usher in the conditions for a communist revolution, while simultaneously bankrolling Donald Trump, proves US Big Tech is run by people who are far less smart than they think they are.

So you’re a slop-monger.

Most of the speed improvements are when I’m using it to do things I previously did much more slowly with software, in particular After Effects.

I’m not surprised at the backlash against generative AI & the widespread use of the term ‘slop’.

But human creatives have always used tools. Once upon a time, practical effects people, & paper and pen animators would have seen After Effects computer generated animation & VFX as slop, too.

isn’t remotely as useful as they’d claimed it would be.

Maybe, i’m in the minority, but its made a huge improvement to my productivity. I’m self-employed & a big part of my work is making explainer videos & youtube content for clients. Generative AI has boosted that enormously, as has ChatGPT for simplifying software workflows/answering questions.

There is a strange dichotomy for investors here, on the one hand they want to take advantage of an AI boom, on the other hand, the consequences of that boom are the destruction in value of loads of other companies.

No, the headline is correct. You’re confusing TW & TWh.

An analogy here is how much energy a car engine produces to run the car at any given moment, and the entire energy the car produces over the course of a whole year (which is the figure you quote).

As there are an average of 1,000 - 3,000 hours of sunshine per year (depending on location), if the solar panels were at maximum efficiency - they would produce 10,000 - 30,000 TWh per year.

That upper figure is about the world’s annual output in TWh.

So, terrible at robo-taxis (despite a head start) & now pivoted to being a $1.44 trillion humanoid robotics start-up? That can only end well.

Well, the module launched in 2016 is still going strong …

One day the game of musical chairs that is keeping the American stock market afloat like it’s 1929 is going to come to an end. There’s nothing wrong with being a humanoid robotics startup. But a humanoid robotics startup with a market capitalization of $1.44 trillion, with a terrible record of delivering on robo-cars? It’s all inevitably going to come crashing down …

I think historians will look back at this, and the MAGA phenomena, as closely related pathologies and psychotic breaks from reality.

It is fascinating to see how successful open source AI has become. In particular how Chinese firms are using it, and keeping up with the very best stuff investors are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into.

Why isn’t the fediverse more popular? At futurology.today we have the benefit of also moderating r/futurology on reddit, which has 21.6 million subscribers. Out of the tens of thousands of people who’ve read our posts about the fediverse site, only a few hundred have signed up. Most of our subscribers are from elsewhere in the fediverse.

Absolutely.

The US is now discussing how they can break up the EU.

lists Italy, Austria, Poland and Hungary as countries that the US should “work more with … with the goal of pulling them away” from the European Union.