There's One Clear Reason Americans Are Gloomy About A.I.
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Different generations feel pinched in different ways. For younger Americans — who are most likely to be working in gigs, early-career jobs or positions most exposed to A.I. substitution — the absence of an income floor is the threat. (Note that there is recent research suggesting remote work also has held young people back, but A.I. is still a factor.)
For workers in their 40s and 50s with families, mortgages and ongoing health care needs, the American safety net fails even more comprehensively. Blame employer-linked health care. Every other rich country in the survey — including Germany, France, Japan, Australia, Canada and Britain — provides health care independently of one’s job. Losing your job in those countries means losing income. Losing your job in America means losing income and health coverage simultaneously, often for an entire family.
Job loss in the United States is more threatening than anywhere else in the wealthy world. It turns what should be a setback into a potential cascade — income, insurance, mortgage and child care, all at risk at once. Meanwhile, A.I. chief executives won’t stop telling Americans A.I. is coming for them. The technology is a missile aimed at the most fragile part of the American socioeconomic bargain.
No wonder Americans are pessimistic about A.I. While better messaging will not fix this, decoupling health care from employment might. Building an unemployment insurance system that replaces income at a meaningful level might. Americans’ pessimism about A.I. is largely rational, about a technology tailor-made to crack their crumbling and antiquated social compact.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/opinion/ai-americans-pessimism.html?
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Fuck AI and Fuck AI apologists!
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get help with complex Excel formulas. I’ve used it to look over some emails and presentations, where some of the AI advice was good and I was able to use it. It’s good for helping me brainstorming and coming up with new ideas. The fun stuff like finding recipes or summarizing novels is pretty cool. But it can get off topic and kinda creepy. Dont ask stupid questions about subjects like love, religion or death. I worry most of corporations using AI to deny employment or insurance; though they do those things to us already without AI 
I also have found AI to be useful for obtaining information, evaluating ideas, and exploring options when used appropriately and responsibly.
This is why I am not a fan. The fact that there are folks out there who are trying to say that their 'efforts' are just as valid as those artists and musicians and actors who spent their lives doing the work.
If folks want to use it, fine. Don't keep trying to tell everyone that it is worth the same as those efforts that were completely human, though. It is not.
As one great meme stated, 'I wanted A.I. to take care of work and day to day chores so that I can concentrate on arts, music, and literature, not to take care of the arts, music, and literature so that I can concentrate on work!'
