Here’s Why the Two Are Racing Against Each Other
AI is developing with overwhelming speed. Every week brings new capabilities, new headlines, and new reasons for the average person to feel uneasy. If you’ve found yourself lying awake at night wondering what this all means for your future, you’re not alone.
Three fears dominate the conversation. First, that AI is going to kill us all. Second, that AI will take your job. Third, that AI will be used for surveillance and war. Let’s cut through the noise and look at what’s actually happening, because the solution to nearly all of these concerns isn’t slowing down AI. It’s accelerating Bitcoin adoption.
The AI Apocalypse Is Mostly Hype
The chance that AI will kill us all is real, but very small. Here’s the thing: AI doesn’t have consciousness. It’s not plotting against you. It’s a very effective prediction machine, nothing more. It processes patterns and generates outputs based on training data. There’s no ghost in the machine.
So why does the “AI doom” narrative dominate headlines? Corporations benefit when populations fear AI. Fear creates a call for regulation, which established players can use to corner the market and keep competitors out. They also benefit from the illusion that AI has human or even god-like characteristics because this makes narrative manipulation easier. If people think AI is like God, they can be controlled by claims that “the AI said so.”
The fear of AI escaping and going crazy is probably exaggerated on purpose. If this eventually happens, there isn’t anything you can do about it anyway. Better to enjoy life than waste it worrying about imaginary events.
Yes, AI Will Take Jobs — And That’s Actually Good
It is projected that 92 million jobs will be displaced globally by 2030. Goldman Sachs estimates approximately 300 million full-time jobs could be affected by generative AI. These numbers sound terrifying. But here’s what the fear-mongers won’t tell you.
This job loss is inevitable, and it’s good for society. Not good for the individual who loses their income, of course. That’s painful and real. But society isn’t about jobs. It’s about productivity. Would you wish that forklifts didn’t exist and we were still carrying boxes by hand? That would certainly create more “jobs,” but society would be less prosperous. Those manual jobs would pay far less under far worse conditions.
AI will do the same thing. Electricity took jobs, and gave more jobs. The combustion engine took jobs, and created more jobs. AI will take jobs, and will create new jobs. The question isn’t whether jobs will exist. It’s whether you’ll be ready to adapt.
Entry-level job postings have already declined approximately 35% since January 2023. Young software developers have seen nearly a 20% employment decline. But while some doors close, others open. Consider this: people who get rich with Bitcoin and AI will be willing to pay for human services. They’ll want to learn martial arts from real instructors. They’ll eat at restaurants with human staff. They’ll crave human connection and pay premium prices for it.
Look at RentAHuman.ai — a platform where AI agents literally hire humans for real-world tasks they cannot perform. Over 130 people signed up on the first night, offering services ranging from package pickups to product testing. This is just one example of jobs that come into existence because of AI. We will see much more of this because this pattern always repeats in history.
Society should adapt and become flexible. We shouldn’t expect to learn one profession in our youth and perform the same 40-hour-per-week job until pension. We should focus on learning new things and seeking tasks instead of jobs.
The Bitcoin Standard Changes Everything
Here’s where the story takes a sharp turn. Under our current fiat system, this job displacement scenario plays out very differently than it would under a Bitcoin standard.
In a fiat system, when millions lose jobs, governments will print money to pay for unemployment benefits. This will eventually lead to Universal Basic Income and cause massive inflation or even hyperinflation. The money supply will increase drastically, transferring all the value created by AI to the banking and political class because they are the recipients of newly printed money.
What does this mean for you? The 1% ultra-rich will get much richer while ordinary people lose their jobs and watch their savings evaporate through inflation. Your grocery bill goes up. Your rent goes up. Your wages, if you find work, stay flat.
Under a Bitcoin standard, none of this happens. There would be no money printing. That means the increase in productivity gets shared across the population in the form of deflation. Without AI, this deflation would already be about 6% per year as technology improves. Add the increased productivity from AI and robotics, and the wealth in society would skyrocket.
This makes lost jobs much easier to live with and would accelerate the creation of new jobs. When your savings buy more every year instead of less, you have breathing room. You have capital to retrain. You have time to find your next opportunity.
In other words: We need Bitcoin mass adoption before AI really takes off!
The Race Against Time
Bitcoin and AI are in a race. The quicker Bitcoin gets adopted compared to AI, the easier the lost jobs will be to handle and the more wealth will be distributed among the population instead of the elites.
The faster we adopt Bitcoin, the less painful AI-driven job displacement becomes. Sadly, AI is already here before Bitcoin is fully adopted. This means the fiat problems will occur. It’s just a question of how severe the effects will be.
For you as an individual, there’s good news. If you own Bitcoin, it will likely skyrocket on the money printing that the fiat system will be forced to do. This will at least protect you personally even as the broader economy struggles.
Surveillance and War: Real Problems with a Real Solution
Mass surveillance and war are genuine concerns. We see them expanding already, and AI will push both further. However, both are fundamentally fiat phenomena, at least at their current magnitude.
Under a Bitcoin standard, there would be far less mass surveillance and way less war. This means that if we achieve Bitcoin mass adoption quickly, AI will be used more for constructive purposes and less for destruction.
A Bitcoin standard literally rewires incentives in society. Fiat society builds nuclear bombs; a Bitcoin standard builds nuclear reactors to give people cheap energy. Fiat society invests in warships; Bitcoin society builds cruise ships. The same applies to AI: Fiat society will use AI for surveillance systems and weapons of war. Under a Bitcoin standard, AI will be used for productivity and cooperation.
The Only Action That Matters
You’re worried about AI. That’s rational. But the prescription is counterintuitive. You don’t need to lobby for AI regulation that will be captured by corporations. You don’t need to bury your head in the sand and hope it all goes away.
You need Bitcoin. Bitcoin adoption is the single greatest protection against every major AI concern. It protects your wealth from the inflation that will fund unemployment programs. It rewires societal incentives away from surveillance and war. And it gives you a seat on the winning side of the greatest technological transition in human history.
The race is on. Which side are you betting on?