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6. So, apparently, one of the major risks of AI is that companies are so heavily invested and deeply indebted

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Thu Dec 4, 2025, 01:41 AM

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that they will default on their loans and crash the economy.

Or, alternatively, be successful and eliminate every job, and thus crash the economy.

We might not make it to the AI danger we all worry about -- something like a Skynet.

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