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Tracking the Evolution of AI: The Longitudinal Expert AI Panel
No comments on Tracking the Evolution of AI: The Longitudinal Expert AI Panel“As artificial Intelligence (AI) reshapes culture, science, labor markets, and the aggregate economy, experts debate its value, risks, and how quickly it will integrate into everyday life,” noted “The Longitudinal Expert AI Panel,” a recently published report. “Leaders of AI companies forecast transformative AI systems that cure all diseases, replace whole classes of jobs, and…
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“AI capabilities have improved radically in recent years,” wrote economists Erik Brynjolfsson, Anton Korinek, and Ajay K. Agrawal in “A Research Agenda for the Economics of Transformative AI,” a recently published working paper. “Our institutions, organizations, skills, and economic models are struggling to keep pace. In this growing gap lie the greatest risks of the…
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“Will AI create a generation of non-thinkers?,” asked Bharat Chandar, — a postdoctoral researcher at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, — in an essay published earlier this year in his Substack platform. In the essay, Chandar wrote about his concerns that a generation of students may not be able to develop the critical skills necessary…
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“In small factories across America, agile automatons are making everything from parts for AI supercomputers to the hulls of America’s future autonomous naval weapons,” wrote technology columnist Christopher Mims in a recent WSJ article, “America’s Manufacturing Resurgence Will Be Powered by These Robots.” “Once a luxury reserved for big manufacturers, smaller, smarter, more flexible and less…
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“As GenAI tools handle more routine programming tasks, the software developer’s responsibilities shift to supervising these tools,” wrote Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) professors Mary Shaw, Michael Hilton, and George Fairbanks in “AI Tools Make Design Skills More Important than Ever,” a column that will be published in the IEEE Software issue of Jan-Feb 2026. “Accordingly,…
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“Corporate spending on artificial intelligence is surging as executives bank on major efficiency gains. So far, they report little effect to the bottom line,” wrote NY Times technology and business reporter Steve Lohr in a recent article, “Companies Are Pouring Billions Into A.I. It Has Yet to Pay Off.” “Nearly four decades ago, when the…
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“The rapid rise of compound AI systems (a.k.a., AI agents) is reshaping the labor market, raising concerns about job displacement, diminished human agency, and overreliance on automation,” said “Future of Work with AI Agents,” a recently published paper by researchers from the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI and the Digital Economy Lab. “Yet, we lack…
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An article in the July 19, 2025 issue of The Economist asked “Why is AI so slow to spread?” in its title. “Talk to executives and before long they will rhapsodise about all the wonderful ways in which their business is using artificial intelligence,” said the article. CEOs proudly bragged about the impact AI is…
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Artificial intelligence first came to light in the mid-1950s as a promising new academic discipline that aimed to develop intelligent machines capable of handling human-like tasks like natural language and playing chess. AI became one of the most exciting areas in computer sciences in the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, but after years of unfulfilled promises…
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The July 26 issue of The Economist included a special focus on “The Economics of Superintelligence” with three articles on the subject. “For most of history the safest prediction has been that things will continue much as they are,” said the lead article. “But sometimes the future is unrecognisable. The tech bosses of Silicon Valley say humanity…