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Predicting the end of humanity is one way to get a headline. For artificial intelligence (AI) developers, it may also be one way to hand a future plaintiff evidence. Developers have become some of the loudest voices warning about their own systems. Predictions that AI could drive humanity to extinction—once widely dismissed as absurd—now make … Doom, Meet Duty: AI’s Warnings Come With Legal Baggage
Suppose you get a $1,000 payment. How much do you spend? Before answering, we’d want to know a few things: Is this a one-time payment? The first of many? Can you borrow? Do you already have savings? This year’s Nobel Prize in economics went to Robert Hall and Michael Woodford for providing the theory to … A Nobel Prize for Thinking Ahead: Hall and Woodford’s Great Expectations
Everyone wants the next medical breakthrough. Few want the bill. The United States pays a disproportionate share of the cost of pharmaceutical innovation, while other wealthy countries hold down medicine prices and count on the research to keep coming. Yet much of the U.S. policy debate proposes copying their approach: because Americans frequently pay more … The World Wants Cures. America Gets the Check.
