Attention Economy


Thursday, February 13, 2025

AI Risks

How AI will divide the best from the rest
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/02/13/how-ai-will-divide-the-best-from-the-rest
Optimists hope the technology will be a great equaliser. Instead, it looks likely to widen social divides.
 
The danger of relying on OpenAI’s Deep Research
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/02/13/the-danger-of-relying-on-openais-deep-research 

Why MAGA Folks Should Read Marx
https://www.wsj.com/politics/why-maga-folks-should-read-marx-464c1592
Today’s conservative populists will find sympathetic ideas about the failings of capitalism in the writings of the great communist philosopher.
 
Marx and the AI Revolution
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/marx-and-the-ai-revolution-ai-economy-virtual-reality-populists-d39e611b
The deeper criticism Marx leveled against capitalism, unfair or not, may be even more relevant to all populists today. That would be the dehumanization of a world that, he said, alienates us from our fully human potential. That sounds like the world of digital commerce, virtual reality, disembodied “customer care” and robotics. Marx was wrong about the solution, but he anticipated the discontent spawned by a digital economy and its elite overseers.