HeyJaredJames Pethokoukis
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Artificial Intelligence Meets Real-World Frictions (opens the original)
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Amid all the talk about artificial intelligence and catastrophic risks straight out of a Hollywood thriller, it’s easy to forget the technology’s basic, down-to-earth promise: helping workers across the US economy get more done in a day. And if that happens, the result should be fatter paychecks and cheaper goods. If we get miracle cures and space colonies, too, so much the better. The hard part—as with other general-purpose technologies before it, such as electrification and the computer—is tha
What Robot Trucks Tells About the Future of AI and Jobs (opens the original)
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Being early is the same as being wrong. It’s a Wall Street adage worth keeping in mind when evaluating extravagant claims about the potential economic impact of artificial intelligence. Caution is warranted, as I will explain. Back in 2013, The Washington Post published “What Will Happen to Truck Drivers When Self-Driving Vehicles Take Over?” The piece, keying off early Google tests of self-driving technology, wondered what such advances might mean for “the country’s existing pool of 5.7 million
Stock Buybacks and the AI Boom (opens the original)
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“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” It’s a great Oscar Wilde line, one policymakers should always keep front of mind. Be careful of what goals you pursue, because you might achieve them in the worst possible way. One example: Some US politicians, mostly Democrats, spent years, notably the late 2010s and early 2020s, insisting that American companies stop buying back their own shares and instead put that dough to work in th
Affordability, Not AI, Is Most Likely to Be the Big 2026 Election Issue (opens the original)
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We’re only about five months away from an important milestone here in the emerging age of artificial intelligence. Back in February of this year, Microsoft AI boss Mustafa Suleyman, also a cofounder of Google DeepMind (formerly DeepMind before its acquisition by the tech giant), made this prediction in an interview with the Financial Times: “White-collar work, where you’re sitting down at a computer, either being a lawyer or an accountant or a project manager or a marketing person—most of those
A World Where AI Is a “Normal” Technology (opens the original)
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Boosting economic growth in any sort of sustained way is really hard. The American public should always be skeptical of policy ideas promising to, say, add a full percentage point to real GDP growth, or anything close. First, a full percentage point is a lot for an economy that has grown at a 2.2 percent annual rate this century. Second, such policies are hard to find. We spend a lot of time debating issues such as tax reform, greater federal R&D spending, and immigration reform, but from a grow
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