Hank: AI will do a lot of damage to Trump's coalition of populists and billionaires in 2026 (2025)
prediction · status: due 2026; outcome not yet known · last event: predicted (2025-12-19) · owner: Hank
In December 2025 Hank predicted that artificial intelligence, a big new force one side loves and the other hates, has a good chance of doing a lot of damage to Trump's coalition of populists and billionaires in 2026.
Told alongside: Hank: AI is probably an economic bubble (2025)
About: artificial intelligence, Donald Trump
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-19 | predicted | Hank predicts that AI, a big new force one side loves and the other hates, has a good chance of doing a lot of damage to Trump's coalition. (hedged) | My Big 2026 Prediction is...Not Fun 00:03:25 |
What is said about it
8 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2025-12-19 · My Big 2026 Prediction is...Not Fun — Hank calls AI data centers giant boxes that eat jobs, concentrate capital and replace labor with infrastructure, sarcastically adding that they make billionaires richer while raising power bills. (playful) — 00:03:54
- 2025-12-19 · My Big 2026 Prediction is...Not Fun — Hank says, judging from every earlier technological revolution, that making human labor irrelevant or less valuable is not a populist vibe. — 00:03:54
- 2025-12-19 · My Big 2026 Prediction is...Not Fun — Hank says 2026 might bring the popping of the AI bubble, taking a substantial part of the economy down with it. (hedged) — 00:03:54
- 2025-12-19 · My Big 2026 Prediction is...Not Fun — Hank says that if the bubble pops the government should probably intervene, and the oligarchy side of Trump's coalition will want him to stop a crash. (hedged) — 00:04:23
- 2025-12-19 · My Big 2026 Prediction is...Not Fun — Hank says giving taxpayer money to billionaires who bet the whole economy on technological determinism would be hard to do from a populist base. (hedged) — 00:04:23
- 2025-12-19 · My Big 2026 Prediction is...Not Fun — Hank says the discourse side of the coalition has no reason to like AI: average people dislike a job-eating box that enriches billionaires and raises power bills, even if it supplies fake videos on Instagram Reels. — 00:04:53
- 2025-12-19 · My Big 2026 Prediction is...Not Fun — Hank feels the discourse has already largely turned on AI, though he sees only one corner of it. — 00:04:53
- 2025-12-19 · My Big 2026 Prediction is...Not Fun — Hank says AI is a tool of economic elites designed to concentrate wealth in their hands, and that this is why they are building it. — 00:04:53