EMERGENCY DEBATE: The Economy Is About To Collapse! The 2026 AI Crisis Nobody Sees Coming

Steven Bartlett (0:00)

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Cenk Uygur (1:15)

Everybody is in a rush to fire 10 to 25 percent of their workforce, but 10 percent unemployment would be worse than anything that's ever happened in our lifetimes. We're going to have a depression like we've never seen in our lives.

Kevin O'Leary (1:26)

Wow, Jake's a real Debbie Downer today. I mean, this is an unbelievable opportunity we're talking about. I got to buy more sunglasses for how bright the future is.

Cenk Uygur (1:36)

If you notice, Kevin actually didn't address the wave of unemployment at all because there's no question that it's going to happen. And when we hit the iceberg, we're not going to be ready, and it is going to be an epic disaster.

Kevin O'Leary (1:47)

Change is disruptive and it's uncomfortable, but the scare factor of saying that everybody loses their job and the robots eat the children, I just don't buy it.

Cenk Uygur (1:58)

I don't know anyone saying that the robots are going to eat the children. And I understand that change happens, but we have to be careful with change because by 2028, we're going to have disaster from AI unemployment and disaster from the war. The only hope is electing a smart person who's prepared in 2028

SPEAKER_4 (2:14)

Republicans, I have one thing to tell you. Na, na, na, na, na, na, there's no way nobody's showing up to vote. Their voter enthusiasm is obliterated.

Kevin O'Leary (2:26)

But the Democrats have also lost their way.

Cenk Uygur (2:29)

And the Republicans only have one guy who could win, and I'm worried about it, Tucker Carlson.

Steven Bartlett (2:33)

So as we head towards the midterms, but also the elections, which aren't actually that far away now, do you agree that we're heading towards a more socialist America?

Kevin O'Leary (2:41)

So let me just say this. How about that for an answer?

Steven Bartlett (2:51)

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Cenk, Kevin, thank you so much for being here with me. There's so much going on in the world that I have so many questions, and you both have very different perspectives on all of the issues that I care about the most. So I thought I'd bring us together to try and pass through what is true. Unlike a lot of shows, I don't expect a shouting match. What I'm trying to get is to truth. And I'm hoping that seeing the collision of your ideas on some of the big issues that are front of mind for me, like artificial intelligence, like geopolitics, like what's going on in America now that I live there, I think will be incredibly beneficial to me and hopefully therefore my audience. I have this graph here that says seven in ten Americans oppose local construction of AI data centers.