“This is obviously the most disruptive technology in the history of mankind,” billionaire investor Paul Tudor Jones said last month.
“We’ve been served,” Jones warned during an appearance on “Bloomberg Open Interest,” casting artificial intelligence as a force that demands urgent scrutiny. His remarks sparked debate over looming job losses, classroom breakthroughs, and whether Congress can craft guardrails before machines outrun lawmakers.
Jones invoked the 1962 “Twilight Zone” episode “To Serve Man,” where grateful earthlings later learn the aliens’ gift is a cookbook. “It seemed humanitarian, but it turns out to be a cookbook,” he said, arguing that a helpful-looking algorithm could hide a deadly recipe.
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Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk echoed the fear during a February appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience”, estimating a 20% chance AI could wipe out humanity—a risk Jones said should “set off alarm bells throughout the world.”
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told Axios in late May that U.S. unemployment could vault from about 4 % to between 10%-20 % within five years as large-language models automate routine white-collar roles, including contract drafting and balance-sheet analysis.
He added that junior analysts, paralegals, and entry-level coders face the greatest risk because their duties mirror model-training data almost verbatim.
The projection tracks with the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025, which expects automation to reshape 85 million positions globally by 2027. Jones warned that banking, consulting, law, and media tasks are “already being done faster, sometimes better, by machines,” raising the chance of simultaneous layoffs that could test social-safety nets.
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Even so, Jones said AI’s upside “can be profound” in classrooms. The U.S. Department of Education’s proposed fiscal 2025 budget includes nearly $500 million for adaptive-learning pilots. A Stanford-led study from 2024 found that students using AI-assisted tutoring were 4 percentage points more likely to master math concepts, with the largest gains—up to 9 percentage points—among those paired with lower-rated human tutors. Supporters argue that virtual tutors, available around the clock, could narrow stubborn achievement gaps.
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