Gordon Ritter: I predicted AI's learning loop a decade ago. The doomers are still measuring the wrong thing

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In June 2025, Jim Farley said AI would replace half of all white-collar workers in America. Dario Amodei put unemployment as high as 20%. For more than a year, executives have reframed the future of knowledge work as a countdown clock.

I want to make the opposite case — and I want to be honest that I have skin in it.