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Opinion: AI tech bros are self-serving and slimy. But we must heed them anyway and pause development (opens the original)
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Chris Gay is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. He is a former Wall Street Journal staffer and writes the newsletter Figure at Center. If you’re starting to find the artificial intelligence arms race confusing, that’s because it is. Anyone who’s watched Silicon Valley knows that Big Tech is not inclined toward modesty and self-restraint and isn’t exactly partial to guardrails. But AI’s biggest players are now calling for precisely that. We should heed them. Alert readers also know
Opinion: A shrinking population might actually be a good thing (opens the original)
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Chris Gay is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. He is a former Wall Street Journal staffer and writes the newsletter Figure at Center. There aren’t many things that generate as much existential hand-wringing as global warming and artificial intelligence, but low fertility rates come pretty close. Birth rates in much of the world have fallen below replacement levels, portending gradual population shrinkage in many advanced economies. China is losing the fastest in terms of absolute
Opinion: If AI steals jobs, who will be left to buy all the stuff? (opens the original)
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Chris Gay is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. He is a former Wall Street Journal staffer and writes the newsletter Figure at Center. Going by the direst predictions, artificial intelligence will make human workers irrelevant over the next few years, slashing the ranks of knowledge workers, in particular, by huge percentages. That raises an alarming prospect: a world in which few are employed and therefore few consume. Put somewhat facetiously, if no one is employed, who is going
Opinion: Trump’s big-government, interventionist AI policy is the one thing he’s done right (opens the original)
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Chris Gay is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. He is a former Wall Street Journal staffer and writes the newsletter Figure at Center. For all his faults, let’s give Donald Trump credit for one thing: He has pulled America’s Republican Party a considerable distance from its much-cherished if largely hollow small-government “principle.” There may be no clearer example than his – and his party’s – eagerness to place government guardrails around artificial intelligence. Not a moment t
Globe editorial: Keeping at bay the dangers of AI (opens the original)
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has a simple analogy for how to make artificial intelligence safe. He says that people will have to create new social norms and adapt society to the technology, the way cities developed sidewalks and crosswalks to protect children who once played in the streets. This ignores the fact that traffic deaths remain the leading cause of death for those aged five to 29, killing about 180,000 annually worldwide. But to Geoffrey Hinton, a professor emeritus at the University of To
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