Skip to main contentSkip to navigation Close dialogue1/4 Next image Previous image Toggle captionSkip to navigation The Manhattan skyline. Wall Street opened down more than 800 points on Tuesday over fears of AI disruption to the US economy. Photograph: Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty Images View image in fullscreen The Manhattan skyline. Wall Street opened down more than 800 points on Tuesday over fears of AI disruption to the US economy. Photograph: Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty Images ‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US marketsShares in Uber, Mastercard and American Express fall on back of apocalypse scenario posted on Substack US stock markets have been hit by a further wave of AI jitters, this time from yet another viral – and completely speculative – warning about the impact of the technology on the world’s largest economy.The latest foreboding is from Citrini Research, a little-known US firm that provides insights on “transformative ‘megatrends’”. Its post on Substack, which it called a “scenario, not a prediction”, rattled investors by portraying a near future in which autonomous AI systems – or agents – upend the entire US economy, from jobs to markets and mortgages.Citrini’s scenario begins now and ends in June 2028, with US unemployment cresting over 10% and an Occupy Silicon Valley movement setting up camp outside OpenAI and Anthropic’s offices…
Published: February 24, 2026 4:10 pm
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