The more that kids can cheat thanks to AI advances, the better education will become. Yes, you read that right. No need to read it again. AI-enabled cheating on homework, term papers and tests will vastly improve education. Consider the world outside of school to understand why. People used to know how to milk […]
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates used to say that his company’s biggest competitor was Goldman Sachs. Yes, the investment bank. Gates’s point was that business success is a function of the people showing up to work each day, and Goldman was Microsoft’s most formidable foe in the battle for human capital. It’s something to think
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“Would you like fries with that?” What you just read is a question, an economic cost, but also arguably a symbol of the difficulties fast-food restaurants have long faced. How to find good, conscientious and energized individuals willing and eager to ask “Would you like fries with that?” In particular, how to find those
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In 2020, West Virginia University president E. Gordon Gee memorably quipped to the New York Times that he wanted “to build a wall around West Virginia and keep all the kids here. A state can’t flourish that can’t keep its young people there.” Gee was and is so right. People are what drive prosperity. Call Artificial
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Roughly a fifth of Apple’s iPhones are sold in China. Repeat the previous anecdote over and over again, and ideally convey it to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Matt Pottinger, chairman of the China program at Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Recently the duo penned an opinion piece asserting that “Legislators on both sides of the
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President Trump declared that the U.S. will be “the world capital of artificial intelligence” at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Trump’s commitment carries significant weight, given that he has already repealed a Biden-era executive order that aimed to monitor and regulate AI, which carried the risk of slowing our development of this technology compared to foreign competitors. President
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Oil is the most important commodity in the world when it comes to human flourishing, and nothing else comes close. Stop and think about how intensely inconvenient and impoverished life would be without the goods and services made possible by oil, along with the remarkable advances in work productivity that never would have happened
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