The AI Economic Doomsday Report That Shook Wall Street
A fictional Substack post from a small research firm, Citrini Research, projected a dystopian AI-driven future with mass white-collar job losses and economic collapse by 2028, sparking a real-world stock market sell-off and exposing Wall Street’s deep uncertainty about AI’s economic impac
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