Predictions abound on how the rising record of generative AI fashions will remodel the way in which we work and arrange our lives, offering immediate recommendation on the whole lot from monetary investments to the place to spend your subsequent trip.
However for economists, probably the most crucial query round our obsession with AI is how the fledgling expertise will (or gained’t) increase total productiveness, and if it does, how lengthy it should take. Can the expertise result in renewed prosperity after years of stagnant financial development? Learn the total story.
—David Rotman
Combating for a future past the local weather disaster
On the subject of local weather breakdown and the extinction disaster, the query typically requested is: How can we have now hope?
However possibly hope is the unsuitable emotion to give attention to. As an alternative, 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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