Skittish investors spooked as dystopian AI outlooks go viral

By Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE, Feb 24 (Reuters) - An imagined dystopia of mass unemployment fuelled by artificial intelligence, highlighted in Citrini Research's now viral report, has unsettled global markets, where a recent huge bet on the technology is starting to show cracks. The report, the latest ‌in a series of gloomy "think pieces" on the disruptive potential of AI, envisions a 2028 scenario where unemployment rises to 10.2%, ‌triggered by layoffs as AI rapidly turfs out software and delivery applica ...