Quick Summary
- Stan Druckenmiller says nobody really knows whether AI will destroy jobs, reshape them or trigger a very different inflation outcome than markets expect.
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A lot of people are treating artificial intelligence (AI) like it will slash jobs, crush wages and push prices down.
Stan Druckenmiller wants you to slow down before you buy that script.
“I don’t think any of us know how this movie is going to play out,” the billionaire investor said in a recent conversation with Morgan Stanley’s Iliana Bouzali, pushing back on the idea that AI will definitely be deflationary and trigger “massive job losses.”
His main objection is that people are drawing hard conclusions from something that’s still unfolding. “Anybody who believes that with conviction suffers from arrogance and not an open mind,” he said.
Why he thinks the jobs story is more complicated
Druckenmiller, who is famously known for achieving roughly 30% annual returns every year for 30 years, said that every big wave of technology has been greeted with predictions of mass unemployment, “all the way back to the horse and buggy.”
It hasn’t worked out that way, though. Jobs have changed, but they haven’t disappeared. That’s why it is always good to stay prepared by speaking …
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