About Supersonic Tsunami

Supersonic Tsunami covers the most important economic story of our time: how AI and robotics are reshaping the job market. The work being wiped out, the industries being born, and what you can do about it.

The name comes from Elon Musk, who described AI as "the supersonic tsunami" headed for desk jobs (Business Insider). We take that seriously without taking it on faith.

Our point of view

We're realistic optimists. History shows that every great technology wave has destroyed jobs and created new ones, from farmhands to ledger clerks to bank tellers. But this wave is faster, and it removes the limit that every past economy shared: the limit on how much human labor there is. Read why.

We're strictly nonpartisan. We will push you to act as a worker, as a business owner, as a consumer and as a citizen, but we will never tell you which party to vote for.

Who writes it

Bryan is an entrepreneur who has built companies and led teams through plenty of technological change. He writes Bryan's Take, several columns a week on what the headlines mean and what to do about them.

How we use AI

A site about AI should be honest about its own use of it. Here is exactly how this one works:

• The Daily Briefing is gathered automatically every morning from Google News and major publishers' feeds. An AI model (Anthropic's Claude) chooses the most relevant stories, writes a one-sentence summary of each from the publisher's own headline and description, and tags it Hopeful, Sobering or Policy. Every item links to the original reporting.
• Bryan's Take posts are drafted with AI assistance from that week's sourced headlines. Each draft is emailed to Bryan, and nothing publishes until he reviews and approves it. Statistics must link to a source, or they don't go in.
• The essays on this site were written with AI assistance and reviewed for accuracy against the sources they link to.

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