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What Nassim Nicholas Taleb has said about artificial intelligence

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan and former options trader. 2 statements from October 11, 2026 to October 25, 2026, each quoted word for word from the original and checked before publication. Newest first.

  1. October 25, 2026 · on X
    “The AI impact won't be felt immediately through layoffs (existing jobs are sticky), but through a collapse in hiring (jobs that don't yet exist have no stickiness).”

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  2. October 11, 2026 · on X
    “To generalize from the Kasparov & the math debacle: as a rule, all performative skills will be destroyed by AI. A computer will always outperform a human, so chess is no longer a skill. Same w/mathematical acrobatics. What's left is what makes us human.”

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