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🤖 AI, ethics, and progress
Writing in the Boston Review, Daron Acemoglu, one of my favourite economists on topics like automation and institutions, frames artificial intelligence:
AI is not likely to make humans redundant. Nor will it create superintelligence anytime soon. But like it or not, AI technologies and intelligent systems will make huge advances in the next two decades—revolutionizing medicine, entertainment, and tra…