Sinead Bovell
A humanistic lens on the technologies reshaping our world and what they mean for your life.
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What Everyone Missed About the Xi-Trump Meeting (opens the original)
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Chinese President Xi Jinping visited President Trump at the White House last week.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="278.4397394136808" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WpfI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubs
We Have Lost the Ability to Have a Rational Conversation About AI (opens the original)
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Nearly four years after the launch of ChatGPT, and over a decade into AI being embedded in everyday products, we have made nowhere near enough progress on building the institutional capability we will need to properly steer and safeguard this technology.Instead, the conversation keeps falling into the same cycle.Every few months, someone exits a frontier AI lab and posts a warning about the existential risks AI could pose to humanity. The first response is complete panic. The news cycle surround
A conversation with Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu (opens the original)
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AI is arriving at a moment when several of the systems responsible for absorbing technological change already look strained.There is growing resistance to data centers, persistent anxiety about jobs, extraordinary concentrations of wealth and technological power, and governments trying to understand technologies that are evolving faster than the institutions overseeing them.So when I sat down with Daron Acemoglu, I wanted to start upstream of the potential impact may have on society.Daron is an
Are Our Institutions Built for This Century? (opens the original)
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How Much Shadow Work Have You Done This Week? (opens the original)
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