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Author: Lee Adler

I’ve been publishing The Wall Street Examiner and its predecessor since October 2000. I also publish LiquidityTrader.com, and was lead analyst for Sure Money Investor, of blessed memory. I developed David Stockman’s Contra Corner for Mr. Stockman. I’ve had a wide variety of finance related jobs since 1972, including a stint on Wall Street in both sales, analytical, and trading capacities. Prior to starting the Wall Street Examiner I was a commercial real estate appraiser in Florida for 15 years. I was considered an expert in the analysis of failed properties that ended up in the hands of bank REO divisions, the FDIC, and the RTC. Remember those guys? I also worked in the residential mortgage and real estate businesses in parts of the 1970s and 80s. I have been charting stocks and markets and doing analytical work since I was a teenager. I’m not some Ivory Tower academic, Wall Street guy. My perspective comes from having my boots on the ground and in the trenches, as a real estate broker, mortgage broker, trader, account rep, and analyst. I’ve watched most of the games these Wall Street wiseguys play from right up close. I know the drill from my 55 years of paying attention. And I’m happy to share that experience with you, right here.

The AI Job-Destruction Lie: How the Media Amplifies Industry PR

This started when I saw a new Fortune headline claiming that AI is “wiping out jobs.” As a heavy user of AI, who is well aware of its fatal flaws, I have found these claims to be patently ridiculous. So I asked the AI itself  whether it was true. As it turns out, the more questions posed, the weaker the story becomes. Who is supposedly losing work, what evidence supports the claim, when this collapse began, where it shows up in the data, and why the press keeps repeating it — none of it holds up. Employment, payrolls, and withholding taxes are all still rising.

So I put the questions directly to ChatGPT and required neutral, current, evidence-only answers. Here is the full exchange.

Q&A: Why the Death of AI Is Not Only Inevitable, but Almost Here

They say that AI is the most important technological revolution of our time. It will replace workers, reshape the economy, outrun human intelligence, and maybe even do away with the human race.

I’ve used it for a year. I’m not impressed. After an initial burst where it taught me a little coding, which, ironically I was forced to learn because of its errors, it did not increase my productivity. It became counterproductive.

Having spent much of my career dealing with issues of financial feasibility, and economic and functional obsolescence, it began to dawn on me that AI would never be economically viable. So I asked the AI itself about that.  This report presents the questions I put to the chatbot, and the straight dope it gave in response.