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“Unemployment will reach 99 percent by 2030.”
- Said
- 2025
- Deadline
- by 2030
- Source
- podcast →
- Verdict
- not yet
What would settle this
US unemployment as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics reaching 99 percent, or any comparable national measure doing so. A partial rise, however large, does not settle this true.
Written when the claim went on the record, on 7 August 2026, before the outcome was known. How the record works →
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About Roman Yampolskiy
Computer science professor and AI safety researcher who has published extensively on the controllability of advanced systems. Argues superintelligence cannot be reliably controlled, and gives unusually specific dates for AGI arrival and labour market disruption.
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