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What Decides How Much AI Changes the World (opens the original)
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People keep asking why I left AI research. I didn’t.I focused on what made prior AI predictions wrong. When I wrote down the research agenda I thought had to exist, the shortest name for it was Abundance.Here is how I got there.The forecast that changed my mindWhen ChatGPT came out, a lot of thoughtful people thought releasing it was reckless. The model could write fake news articles in seconds. Personalized propaganda would flood
The working class has its own pride. Not everyone wants to enter elite circles. (opens the original)
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At the private four-year university I transferred to, someone asked why I carried a pocket knife. It was a tiny Swiss Army knife mostly used for the scissors and nail file. “You’re not at community college anymore,” he said, as if community college was somewhere you’d need a weapon.<div class="image2-in
How Poor People Buy Cars (opens the original)
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I like asking friends who grew up rich what small things about their lives were different. I asked one whether any of his friends had crappy cars.“Not really. Maybe one.”He meant an older Honda Civic.I meant a car where more than two of the doors or windows don’t open, or one you can’t take on the highway.<a class="image-link image2" href="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1557690891-d919fb7ecea9?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHw3fHxjYXJyby
A No-Regrets AI Agenda for Workers and Low-Income People (opens the original)
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Antibiotic resistance kills as many Americans as car crashes. Someone won an award for stopping a fix. (opens the original)
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