{"id":215845,"date":"2026-05-18T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/ai-boom-and-economic-fears-fuel-debate-over-americas-future\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T15:35:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:35:49","slug":"ai-boom-and-economic-fears-fuel-debate-over-americas-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/ai-boom-and-economic-fears-fuel-debate-over-americas-future\/","title":{"rendered":"AI boom and economic fears fuel debate over America\u2019s future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tucson.com\/opinion\/column\/article_d90f3e22-ff13-40d0-9ad6-8c645f436e20.html\">AI boom and economic fears fuel debate over America\u2019s future<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tucson.com\/opinion\/column\/article_d90f3e22-ff13-40d0-9ad6-8c645f436e20.html\">https:\/\/tucson.com\/opinion\/column\/article_d90f3e22-ff13-40d0-9ad6-8c645f436e20.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-18 09:20:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"tucson.com\">tucson.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>President Trump initiated a major unapproved war against Iran, resulting in Iranian retaliation and severe economic disruptions by closing the Strait of Hormuz, a critical global shipping route.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The U.S. courts are striking down major tariffs imposed without Congressional approval due to their economic inflation and supply disruptions.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Despite these global economic challenges, U.S. stock markets are reaching record highs mainly driven by Wall Street&#8217;s optimism towards the potential benefits from artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Wealthy stakeholders who dominate the stock market are highly optimistic about AI despite the anticipated job losses for millions of Americans which will increase the productivity and revenue per employee, boosting their wealth.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>There&#8217;s a direct comparison to past economic disruptions when manufacturing jobs were moved overseas, many American workers couldn&#8217;t find jobs, resulting in lower income service industry jobs, increased &#8220;deaths of despair,&#8221; and a decline in U.S life expectancy.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI boom and economic fears fuel debate over America\u2019s future https:\/\/tucson.com\/opinion\/column\/article_d90f3e22-ff13-40d0-9ad6-8c645f436e20.html Publish Date: 2026-05-18 09:20:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/tucson.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/0\/ed\/0ed076d5-654e-4bef-9973-33d758f5cdbd\/6a0659a89ac6f.image.jpg?crop=800%2C450%2C0%2C75","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-215845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215847,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215845\/revisions\/215847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}