Titus Alexander

Freelance change agent, writer, facilitator, campaign trainer, organiser and educator

[Titus Alexander @Tituscando]

.@politybooks published my overview of world politics in 1996, showing parallels w. apartheid. I underestimated benefits of glzn, but #Brexit, Trump etc. show it is more relevant now. We need transition to accountable, equitable gl. governance. Read more https://t.co/OJDOlloM9b

[Titus Alexander @Tituscando]

Read @jackcoder0 now: why AI needs social controls, urgently. @InstituteGC @AnthropicAI
Relevant to: @Pontifex https://t.co/eDvxfcZvIt

[Jack @jackcoder0]

Two economists just published a mathematical proof that AI will destroy the economy.

Not might. Not could. Will — if nothing changes.

The paper is called "The AI Layoff Trap." Published March 2, 2026. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Boston University. Peer reviewed. Mathematically modeled.
The conclusion is one sentence.
"At the limit, firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand."

An economy that produces everything. And sells it to nobody.
Here is how you get there.
A company fires 500 workers and replaces them with AI. A competitor fires 700 to keep up. Another fires 1,000. Every company is behaving rationally. Every company is following the incentives correctly. And every company is building a trap for itself.

Because the workers who were fired were also customers.
When they lose their jobs faster than the economy can absorb them, they stop spending. Consumer demand falls. Companies respond by cutting costs — which means automating more workers — which means less spending — which means more falling demand — which means more automation.

The loop has no natural exit.
The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income. Capital income taxes. Worker equity participation. Upskilling programs. Corporate coordination agreements.
Every single one failed in the model.
The only intervention that worked: a Pigouvian automation tax — a per-task levy charged every time a company replaces a human with AI, forcing them to price in the demand they are destroying before they pull the trigger.

No government has implemented this. No major economy is seriously discussing it.
Meanwhile the numbers are already tracking the curve. 100,000 tech workers laid off in 2025. 92,000 more in the first months of 2026. Jack Dorsey fired half of Block's workforce and said publicly: "Within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion."
Nobody is doing anything wrong. Companies are following their incentives perfectly. That is exactly the problem.

Rational behavior. At scale. Simultaneously. With no mechanism to stop it.
Two economists built the math. The math leads to one place.

Source: Falk & Tsoukalas · Wharton School + Boston University ·

[Titus Alexander @Tituscando]

When the Pope Declared War on America: Episode 31: Quiet Before the Storm - encounters with @QSA, & @LornaShore in Philadelphia https://t.co/M5MkMlPfC8

[Titus Alexander @Tituscando]

@ChrisMurrayMP Britain’s voting system is broken. 70 MPs are backing an amendment to finally review it.
To make an impact, we need many more.
Please support it
https://t.co/u8ls4yVwNc

[Titus Alexander @Tituscando]

Britain’s voting system is broken. 70 MPs are backing an amendment to finally review it.
To make an impact, we need many more. I’ve urged @ChrisMurrayMP to support it with this tool.
Can you contact yours too? https://t.co/u8ls4yVwNc

[Titus Alexander @Tituscando]

When the Pope Declared War On America: Episode 28: Holy Saturday https://t.co/ZkIUNWEm36

[Courtney Mares @catholicourtney]

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV published his landmark encyclical on artificial intelligence "Magnifica Humanitas,” comparing the attempt to build an AI future that excludes God to the "Tower of Babel" and underlining the need to safeguard human dignity as it is "threatened by new forms of dehumanization."

"The risk of dehumanization -- of building a future that excludes God and reduces the other to a means -- is an ancient and ever-new temptation that today takes on a technical guise," Pope Leo said.

"In the era of artificial intelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace.”

[Titus Alexander @Tituscando]

When the Pope Declared War On America: Episode 30: Liberation Day - call for conversations to reboot the American constitution (& evangelical 'deliverance service' https://t.co/HIAMW90pN0

[Titus Alexander @Tituscando]

No limits to GDP - but there are limits to environmental capacity. If tech leaders, oligarghs & politicians do not manage these limits, we are dune for. Humanity will die off and perhaps become extinct. The planet will recover. @elonmusk @grok & @NVIDIAAI may write our obituary.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

True

[Titus Alexander @Tituscando]

When the Pope Declared War On America: Episode 29: Holy Saturday at Mount Zion Philadelphia https://t.co/MisvREafQ1

[Titus Alexander @Tituscando]

America's oligarchy in Trump's raiding party to China:
https://t.co/P52PSOr8Tu
Supporting evidence for Trump prioritising personal wealth over American welfare:
https://t.co/jg3DQufEKw
https://t.co/TrozO6I97l
https://t.co/7TtkS2kLDj
https://t.co/MEtb3aEAzl

[Titus Alexander @Tituscando]

When the Pope Declared War On America: Episode 28: Holy Saturday https://t.co/cptj6cOgeR

[Titus Alexander @Tituscando]

When the Pope Declared War On America: Episode 28: Holy Saturday - encounter with journalists https://t.co/cptj6cOgeR

[DaDeLorean 2547™️ @dadalorian1623]

@RpsAgainstTrump tRUMP always bends the knee

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

Break out students, and below shows the UK immigration story. Latest data only takes us to June last year: it will have fallen further since.

Basic net migration is probably at a multi-year low already. Why doesn't Starmer say so?
https://t.co/Bbxf4cT26G

[ACT @ACitizenshipT]

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[Titus Alexander @Tituscando]

a minute of sheer joy

[SzabadonMagyarul 🇬🇧🇭🇺🇺🇦🇪🇺 @SzabadonMagyar]

The new government of Hungary after inauguration.
Never been so cool to be Hungarian.

[Titus Alexander @Tituscando]

Can you imagine a British parliament singing Ode to Joy? #OdetoJoy
@BestForBritain @Edinburgh4EU @EMN_Project @ECPR

[Adam Schwarz @AdamJSchwarz]

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister.

Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

[Titus Alexander @Tituscando]

When the Pope Declared War On America: Episode 26: The truth shall set us free - a fable for our tme https://t.co/5AKt1iqOLu

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

From the outside, there are indeed funny aspects to Brexit. The fact that migration went heaps up is certainly the funniest bit.

[Titus Alexander @Tituscando]

When the Pope Declared War On America - Episode 24: The Saviour’s Reproaches https://t.co/POysFWbHLK