Predictions abound on how the rising listing of generative AI fashions will rework the way in which we work and manage our lives, offering instantaneous recommendation on all the things from monetary investments to the place to spend your subsequent trip.
However for economists, probably the most essential query round our obsession with AI is how the fledgling expertise will (or gained’t) increase general productiveness, and if it does, how lengthy it would take. Can the expertise result in renewed prosperity after years of stagnant financial progress? Learn the total story.
—David Rotman
Preventing for a future past the local weather disaster
Relating to local weather breakdown and the extinction disaster, the query typically requested is: How can now we have hope?
However perhaps hope is the fallacious emotion to concentrate on. As a substitute, we want shock and awe within the face of the majesty and fragility of nature, humility within the face of the vastness of the transformations our variety has set in movement—a bristling realization of imminent peril. Learn the total story.
—Lydia Millet
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