The AI Revolution's Unlikely Protagonist: Nouriel Roubini's Optimistic Warning Nouriel Roubini, known as "Dr.
Doom" for his predictions of the 2008 financial crash, has shifted from a Cassandra like figure to an advocate for the transformative potential of artificial intelligence and its economic consequences.
Roubini argues that governments will need to introduce universal basic income or socialism in response to technological change displacing human labor.