The AI conversation on X can be frustrating as researchers keep bumping into well-understood problems in economics, sociology, history, & psychology that would be useful to know but are hurt by the lack of dialogue with expets (both as they left X & they aren’t part of AI talk).
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AI Disruption: Barbarians Invading Your Industry
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AI-wielding barbarians are coming for your industry.
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Consumer Surplus Over GDP: Better Metric for AI Value
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If you're interested in how much value increases when consumers get access to a good, a better metric is the change in consumer surplus not the change in spending or GDP. Sometimes changes in GDP are a good proxy for changes in consumer surplus, but not always. The ratio of
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Building AI at Scale: Energy and Resources Infrastructure
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Brasilia for less than 24 hours… what a fascinating city. My message was that creating ‘intelligence’ as a commodity is a major industrial undertaking. When you look at the whole ‘stack’ that is required to make AI a cheap and abundant resource at scale – energy and rare earth
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Measuring AI Value Creation in GDP Economics
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Correct. Here's another way to get at the value created by AI (and other digital goods that are often missed or poorly measured in GDP:
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AI Experts’ Denial: A Danger to Employment
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The denial displayed by certain pseudo-specialists in AI like Luc Julia may be the greatest current danger: it anesthetizes public opinion and delays the awakening of policymakers, yet vital to face the shock of AI on employment.
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CIIE & HQF: AI, Digital Finance, Smart Manufacturing Future
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New on the Blog: CIIE & HQF: AI, Digital Finance, and Smart Manufacturing – The Future of Global Trade Stay ahead in the ever-evolving world of Digital Transformation. This article explores key insights into emerging technologies and their impact on today's business
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OpenAI’s GPT-5 cost-cutting strategy revealed through ChatGPT metrics
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This is an interesting article that sums up some of what we already know—but summarizes it again: OpenAIs cost-cutting with GPT-5. When you consider that ChatGPT is used by 700 million weekly active users, of whom only 3% are paid users, it reveals the enormous scale and, at the