A Bottom-up Approach to Governing the New Generation of AI
In late November of last year, ChatGPT shook the world into a frenzy over the future of artificial intelligence. ChatGPT is among the family of generative AI models that process vast troves of existing data and spit out coherent strings of written, verbal, and visual content. You can, for example, view an image of a […]
Brussels plans sanctions on Chinese companies aiding Russia’s war machine
Brussels has proposed sanctions on Chinese companies for supporting Russia’s war machine for the first time since the conflict in Ukraine began, in a development likely to increase tensions with Beijing. Seven Chinese businesses accused of selling equipment that could be used in weapons have been listed in a new package of sanctions to be […]
Adam Smith v. Wesley Jones
Taking its cue from the NCAA March Madness basketball tournament, the Cato Institute recently sponsored a Protectionist Madness contest that pitted 32 harmful protectionist US trade policies against one another. As reported by Scott Lincicome, after seven rounds and 31 head-to-head “games,” the Jones Act was found to be the worst of the lot. For […]
Your job is (probably) safe from artificial intelligence
The age of “generative” artificial intelligence has well and truly arrived. Openai’s chatbots, which use large-language-model (llm) technology, got the ball rolling in November. Now barely a day goes by without some mind-blowing advance. An ai-powered song featuring a fake “Drake” and “The Weeknd” recently shook the music industry. Programs which convert text to video […]
