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Established AI field signal Development 10d ago
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Nobel laureates AI economic action call

We Must Act Now

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Yoshua Bengio Olivia Guest Tim Kellogg tante Gillian Hadfield Jeffrey Vagle Paul Hünermund Michiel Bontenbal

“If current trajectories of AI development continue, it is highly plausible that AI will drastically transform our economies. We must make collective, democratic choices, rather than letting market forces play out and risking leaving most citizens behind. di…”

“200 AI researchers and economists sign an open letter to policymakers www.wemustactnow.ai”

2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
tante: Oh, is it "AI is super powerful and we who are pushing for AI everywhere warn that we might have created a dangerous god from reddit posts" time of the month again? This is Anthropic/OpenAI PR and …
tante: nope that's it. These folks are getting lazier by the day
tante: Yeah. They spend just a handful of tokens on this website.
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Established Culture, work & education Signal 11d ago
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Economists ai threat jobs

5 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Olivia Guest Rachel Coldicutt Karl Bode Eileen Clancy 🧿 Paul Hünermund

“Hang on, there's another "AI is terrible" letter? And this one is signed by Jack Clark and a bunch of other Anthropic/OpenAI folk. I hate to say this lads, but I have news for you... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/b...”

“I'm sure these 200 economists are all clearly calling out how autocratic corruption is dismantling regulatory autonomy, undermining any effort to protect labor or consumers before it even begins, right?”

5 experts discussed this · 29 posts
Rachel Coldicutt: Hang on, there's another "AI is terrible" letter? And this one is signed by Jack Clark and a bunch of other Anthropic/OpenAI folk. I hate to say this lads, but I have news for you... www.nytimes.co…
Rachel Coldicutt: Yet again, I have cause to tap the sign hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/wz35dvpo...
Hagen Blix: Great essay, wish I would have seen this a lot earlier! I think we share a lot of perspective - Ingeborg Glimmer and I actually start our whole book with the question of why people might like to he…
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2 experts · 8 posts · 11d ago
Ted Underwood Paul Hünermund
Paul Hünermund: Enjoying this brief window where generative AI has made me dramatically more productive, but performance expectations haven't caught up yet. 😇
Ted Underwood: Enjoying this brief window where generative AI has made me dramatically more productive, but performance expectations haven't caught up yet. 😇
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2 experts · 6 posts · 16d ago
Eiko Fried Paul Hünermund
Paul Hünermund: Fort the time being, until programming will become truly conversational, I think the complementarity effect will dominate. Software development and analytics arer becoming more productive, so the d…
Eiko Fried: We’ll finally sit down and think through what good programming in R looks like, rather than teaching how to use a bunch of packages for a bunch of purposes. We’ll teach more meta skills mostly lear…
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