Will AI kill us all?

Tuesday 15 September 2026

If you are like me, you’ve been obsessed with questions of Artificial Intelligence (AI) epistemology for some time.

This is vital to understanding the economic peril/promise the technology holds.

I long ago concluded that AI is like some kind of super bogan: an information management system that makes crude errors, but less so than its human alternative. On this basis, it is a welcome development, not much different to any other efficiency-generating tech.

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About the author

David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.