Artificial Intelligence

  • Who Cashes in on AI’s Productivity Boom? Spoiler: Not You and Me

    When I started studying AI, one assertion kept jumping out at me in every course I took. In each case, it was some variation on the breathless claim that “AI will increase productivity.” One course quantified the sentiment as “Generative AI could elevate productivity growth by 1.5% over the next ten years.” Regardless of the

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  • Weekly Reading 1/31/25

    Weekly Reading 1/31/25

    Today I’m moving from one temporary location to another, because the renovations on my house are behind schedule, and the place I’ve been living in already had someone booked for February. But in between stints of packing for the move this week, I read a lot of interesting things. Here are five I wanted to

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  • This Week’s Reading

    This Week’s Reading

    A roundup of the most thought-provoking things I read this past week. We’re getting the social media crisis wrong “What purports to be a collective phenomena; the ‘voice of the people;’ is actually in private hands; is, to a very great extent shaped by two extremely powerful individuals.” Henry Farrell argues that the fundamental problem

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