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  AI Will Transform the Global Economy. Let's Make Sure It Benefits Humanity.

  Kristalina Georgieva

  The IMF Managing Director warns that nearly 40% of global jobs are exposed to AI disruption, with a significant readiness gap between wealthy and low-income nations.

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  Anthropic's CEO Says We're in the 'Centaur Phase' of Software Engineering

  Dario Amodei

  Amodei compares human-AI collaboration in software engineering to chess’s centaur era, warning the phase may last only 1-5 years.

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  Anthropic's CEO: 'We Don't Know if the Models Are Conscious'

  Dario Amodei, Ross Douthat

  Hour-long NYT ‘Interesting Times’ interview where Douthat presses Amodei on both the utopian promise and existential risks of transformative AI.

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  Coded Social Control: China's Normalization of Biometric Surveillance in the Post-COVID-19 Era

  Michelle Miao

  Legal analysis of how China’s COVID-era health QR codes have persisted and transformed into instruments of broader social control.

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  DeepMind's AlphaFold Changed How Researchers Work

  MIT Technology Review on how AlphaFold solved the 50-year protein folding problem and shifted DeepMind’s focus from games to science.

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  Don't Believe the AI Hype

  Daron Acemoglu

  Nobel laureate Acemoglu argues that AI productivity forecasts from Goldman Sachs and McKinsey are vastly overstated, with actual GDP effects likely under 2% over a decade.

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  Great Polio Epidemic

  Diane Andrews Henningfeld

  Overview of the 1916 polio epidemic that struck 26 U.S. states, illustrating how improved sanitation paradoxically made the disease more deadly.

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  Machines of Loving Grace

  Dario Amodei

  Dario Amodei’s essay on how AI could transform biology, neuroscience, poverty, governance, and work.

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  Meta's AI Chief Yann LeCun on AGI, Open-Source, and AI Risk

  Billy Perrigo, Yann LeCun

  TIME interview where Meta’s chief AI scientist argues LLMs are not a path to AGI and advocates for open-source AI development.

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  Something Big Is Happening

  Matt Shumer

  Shumer argues we’re in the early phase of an AI transformation far larger than COVID-19, with most people unaware of its true scale.

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  The Adolescence of Technology

  Dario Amodei

  Amodei’s companion essay to Machines of Loving Grace, focused on the risks of transformative AI and the pragmatic interventions needed to navigate them.

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  The Simple Macroeconomics of AI

  Daron Acemoglu

  Acemoglu’s formal economic analysis estimating AI’s TFP contribution at under 0.66% over 10 years, far below industry forecasts.

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  The World After Coronavirus

  Yuval Noah Harari

  Harari argues in the Financial Times that emergency surveillance measures adopted during COVID-19 have a nasty habit of outlasting the emergencies that justify them.

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  Trump Wins Another Fake Award — but He Actually Deserves This One

  Heather Souvaine Horn

  New Republic report on the Trump administration’s moves to revoke the EPA endangerment finding and prop up the coal industry despite broad public opposition.