White House Economist Calls Citrini AI Report ‘Science Fiction’
Acting Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers Pierre Yared
Photographer: Graeme Sloan/BloombergA top White House economist dubbed the weekend report about artificial intelligence risks that had roiled the stock market “science fiction.”
The paper from Citrini Research imagines a 2028 world in which rapid advances in machine intelligence turbocharge productivity but render large swaths of human labor obsolete — sparking job losses, collapsing consumer spending and dragging down stock indexes like the S&P 500.