February 22, 2026
Robots, recessions & roast sessions
Global Intelligence Crisis
Global Intelligence Crisis: Wild AI Doomsday Story Has The Internet Calling BS, Dreaming of Robot Butlers, and Dragging the Author
TLDR: An analyst imagines a near future where super‑smart AI kills office jobs, crashes markets, and leaves humans too broke to buy anything, but commenters aren’t buying it. The thread explodes into a three‑way fight between AI doomers, eye‑rolling skeptics, and dreamers picturing robot butlers and space vacations, showing how divided we are on the AI future.
A new “Global Intelligence Crisis” think-piece paints a near‑future where super‑smart computers crash the job market, tank the stock market, and leave humans broke while one giant server farm prints all the money. But in the comments, the real show begins: half the crowd is screaming overhyped AI horror fanfic, the other half is quietly stocking emotional canned goods.
One camp, like the__prestige, tears into the scenario for moving at Marvel movie speed: companies don’t fire half their staff in 18 months “because of a cool demo,” and if customers are broke, businesses stop buying fancy AI toys too. Another group just goes straight for the author’s jugular: newguytony claims the analyst’s recent predictions are so bad he’s “desperate for attention” — translation: the market crashed, but his credibility crashed harder.
There’s also the practical nerd brigade, with krackers rolling their eyes at the idea people will use AI to “price‑match protein bars” and reminding everyone that the real gold is in who owns the data, not the drama. Meanwhile, scandox turns crisis into cosplay, daydreaming about becoming a smug Victorian-style manservant, and joshuaheard goes full Elon Musk optimism, insisting this is all just the ugly transition before robots do the work and humans get to paint, explore space, and vibe. Doom, mockery, and utopia — all in one comment section.
Key Points
- •The article is a hypothetical scenario framed as a June 2028 macro memo analyzing a “Global Intelligence Crisis” caused by rapid AI adoption.
- •In the scenario, by mid-2028 U.S. unemployment reaches 10.2% and the S&P 500 is down 38% from its October 2026 high after an AI-driven boom.
- •Early AI-driven layoffs in 2026 initially boost corporate margins and stock prices, with companies reinvesting record profits into AI compute and achieving high productivity growth.
- •Wealth concentrates among owners of AI compute while real wage growth for workers collapses, leading to reduced consumption, the concept of “Ghost GDP,” and a weakening of the human-centric consumer economy.
- •A feedback loop of AI-enabled layoffs and falling demand undermines the mortgage and private credit markets, triggering defaults, particularly in PE-backed software, and threatening intermediation-based business models by late 2027.