‘Nothing About This Was Inevitable’

Kevin Roose’s new book, “The AGI Chronicles,” discusses our march toward artificial general intelligence, @matteo_wong writes. Wong asks whether that trajectory is really inevitable:

AI Is Running Laps Around Our Political System The technology is moving faster than elected officials can handle—and Anthropic’s CEO says the industry should slow down. By Toluse Olorunnipa

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Their conversation centered on a recent paper Mr. Orszag coauthored, “The New Supply-Side Era: The O-Ring Meets Geopolitics,” which argues that geopolitically driven supply shocks, rather than demand fluctuations, best explain economic volatility.

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