Crossed Wires: AI — canary in the coalmine coughed and 4,000 jobs were lost
Daily Maverick | 02.03.2026 05:23
On Sunday, 22 February, a small macro analyst firm called Citrini Research published a thought experiment on Substack that briefly broke the internet — and, for a few days at least, rattled Wall Street. Titled The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis, the piece was written as a faux-memo from two years into the future, authored by a fictional analyst surveying the wreckage of an AI-driven economic collapse.
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