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✨🎇 The great AI forecasting divide

✨🎇 The great AI forecasting divide

Economists expect artificial intelligence to follow historical patterns of how general purpose technologies affect society. But what if brilliant machines arrive years ahead of schedule?

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Feb 15, 2025
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My fellow pro-growth Up Wingers,

Whither the age of thinking machines — and economic acceleration? (Forgive me for using the former term rather than “artificial intelligence.” I just rewatched Dune.)

As experts of all sorts peer into their crystal balls to divine AI's impact on society, they confront a big question. Will generative AI — and its more ambitious (also theoretical) cousin, artificial general intelligence — prove revolutionary, or merely evolutionary? The answer, naturally, depends on whom one asks …

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