Is AI about to Tear Society Apart? We Asked Andrew Yang
Minus One with Andrew Yang
“We’re heading towards a job-killing tsunami for the average American.”
Andrew Yang saw it coming before almost anyone else. In 2018, he warned that without a plan to handle job displacement, AI would destabilize society. Now, he says the crisis he feared is no longer hypothetical—and that the political violence and social unrest we’re already seeing are just the beginning.
Andrew joins his early mentor, SPC General Partner Mark Jacobstein, and Aditya Agarwal to unpack where we go from here: what UBI might look like in practice, why coders are more at risk than truck drivers, and why his new company, Noble Mobile, will actually pay you to use your phone less.
Yang was an early AI visionary, but he admits he got the sequencing wrong. As a presidential candidate, he warned truck drivers and call center workers. He now says he should have warned management consultants, law school grads, and coders.
Yang’s early career was shaped by a series of failures. All those experiences taught him one thing: rejection isn't fatal.
The political system is “held hostage” by the 11% who vote in party primaries, so candidates go to the extremes. Andrew has a system fix.
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