Citrini Founder Shocked His AI Prediction Spurred Stocks Selloff

The last thing James van Geelen expected to do on Monday was trigger a stock market meltdown. But that’s what he did.

The 33-year-old founder of Citrini Research published his dystopian scenario for an artificial intelligence future on his firm’s Substack on Sunday. Called “The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis,” it described a hypothetical economic plunge in which mass white-collar layoffs create a deflationary cascade that pushes the unemployment rate above 10% while stock prices are wiped out.