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AI optimists are living in Rainbow Land
Yes, AI is going to take your job. The only question now is when that happens
Jun 4
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Nigel Bowen
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May 2026
We’ve reached the end of the beginning of the AI transformation
The AI rubber is starting to hit the road
May 28
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Nigel Bowen
20
4
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The anti-AI backlash is an anti-elite backlash
The problem with treating the plebs poorly is that you may need them one day
May 21
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Nigel Bowen
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Generation X’s poisoned chalice
Can a bunch of irony-drenched, unassuming cynics oversee the Singularity?
May 14
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Nigel Bowen
27
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AI’s permanent underclass problem
What happens when the jobs start disappearing at scale?
May 7
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Nigel Bowen
26
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April 2026
I have seen the future, and it is Meta
AI is starting to profoundly disrupt the labour market and the tech companies currently aren't showing much interest in compensating displaced workers
Apr 30
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Nigel Bowen
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What happens when the elite-human-capital jobs get automated away?
It's looking like AI will be no respecter of persons
Apr 23
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Nigel Bowen
28
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Has AI’s ‘ring of power’ now appeared?
How much more evidence do the AI sceptics need?
Apr 16
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Nigel Bowen
18
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What happens when the AI spark meets the grievance politics kindling?
What happens if new jobs don't replace the ones AI is now vaporising?
Apr 9
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Nigel Bowen
19
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Technological disruption makes for strange bedfellows
Coalitions are a tricky business
Apr 2
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Nigel Bowen
19
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March 2026
We’ll all be dinergoths soon
Those unable to compete in the rat race often choose to run a different race
Mar 26
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Nigel Bowen
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The twilight of the elite consensus
Is the political realignment of the last decade about to hit polite society?
Mar 19
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Nigel Bowen
20
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