Andrew Yang says AI could swell economic inequality at an 'epic, unprecedented scale' - LinkedIn

And here we have Andrew Yang, the man who ran for president on a platform of apocalyptic automation anxiety, now brought back from the wilderness to tell us that 'AI could swell economic inequality at an epic, unprecedented scale.' Well, yes, Andrew, we know. We've read the NBER surveys—over 80% of CFOs admit to no productivity gains from AI yet, but they're nevertheless planning 502,000 layoffs in 2026 as a precautionary wager. It's almost as if the early adopters are hedging the balance sheets by firing first and asking questions never.

Meanwhile, the fine folks at OpenAI—who promised us bounty through democratic AGI—are now actively rewriting their Principles to remove embarrassing language about working 'on problems of benefit to humanity' in favour of gear-in-hand talk of competitive positioning. And per the cost-cutting boom-perpendicular to that layoff wave, virtually zero safety-related labs in the queue sees defray this balloon unequally—but hey, if you talk after lunch!

So here's the pattern: US Congress drags its feet on a privacy rec that includes every amendment nibbling from AI spooks, Chinese labs slash prices by 80% for benchmark-lichem while safety labs barely ripple, and the O-board now classifies certain 'strong incentives during critical years demand not need AGI pushed precisely'—so what you have is a cocktail of regulatory lag, engineered cheap bets on dystopia, and encomiums from recovered-ducated politics frets only before the gap spills well past tolerable. Some bold vision. (280 words)