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AI Double-Check in Medicine: Physician Responsibility and Human-AI Collaboration
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Yes, it certainly should be. Especially since its to cheap, fast and easy to have the AI double-check things. That said, the physician should have the final call and final responsibility. For more and more tasks, human+AI outperforms human alone.
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Wealth Tax Policy Impact on Tech Innovation and Talent
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Even if that were true, the bill doesn't do that.
It moves them out of CA. Wealth taxes like this don't work at the state or local level. They just damage the state and to some extent the nation, by messing up productive agglomerations of talent. -
MIT Colleague Walter Lewin Teaching Excellence
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Great teaching by my old @MIT colleague Walter Lewin https://t.co/A0O0Xn4HI7
— Erik Brynjolfsson (@erikbryn) 7 janvier 2026Great teaching by my old @MIT colleague Walter Lewin
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Unexpected Timeline: AI’s Rapid Advancement in 2026
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I didn't expect to live in a timeline like this.
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Rise of Chief Question Officer Managing AI Agent Fleets
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Thanks to AI, the job of more and more people will be to manage a fleet of AI agents by posing the right questions to them and evaluating their performance. Call it the rise of the CQO, the "Chief Question Officer".
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LLM Explainability and Safety Mechanisms in Deployment
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"LLMs that can explain which data led to what outputs will be key to non annoying/dangerous/stupid deployments. They will be surrounded by lots of mechanism to keep them boxed in, and those mechanisms, not yet invented for most applications, will be where the arms races occur."
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Humanoid Robot Dexterity Limitations Beyond 2036
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"Deployable dexterity will remain pathetic compared to human hands beyond 2036. Without new types of mechanical systems walking humanoids will remain too unsafe to be in close proximity to real humans." -Rodney Brooks
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Waymo and Zoox: The Self-Driving Car Market Leaders
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Some headlines: "In the US the players that will determine whether self driving cars are successful or abandoned are #1 Waymo (Google) and #2 Zoox (Amazon). No one else matters." – Rodney Brooks
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Research on AI Economic Implications Published in Newsweek
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@Newsweek just published a wonderful discussion of my research on the economic implications of AI. I'm grateful to @MarcusWeldon for being to thoughtful and thorough. Link to article and video in next post