Predictions abound on how the rising listing of generative AI fashions will remodel the best way we work and arrange our lives, offering instantaneous recommendation on every little thing 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) enhance general 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
Preventing for a future past the local weather disaster
In relation to local weather breakdown and the extinction disaster, the query usually requested is: How can we have now hope?
However perhaps hope is the improper emotion to deal with. 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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