The Acemoglu Wars Are All About AI

The fall of the theorem economy

How AI could destroy mathematics and barely touch it

The fall of the theorem economy

How AI could destroy mathematics and barely touch it

AI is Maybe Sometimes Better than Nothing

Reporting on that World Bank Nigeria paper

AI's Economics Don't Make Sense

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Meredith Whittaker on Twitter / X

Now that even Goldman, Sequoia, and other major investors are calling it, it's good to remember that the shakiness of the AI market, and the mismatch between capex and ROI, has been clear for a long time to those of us who look closely at the political economy of AI. https://t.co/dLLNAcW5Sn— Meredith Whittaker (@mer__edith) July 30, 2024

How the Anthropic saga could threaten American AI dominance

The shutdown of top AI models reverberates abroad.

Import AI 452: Scaling laws for cyberwar; rising tides of AI automation; and a puzzle over gDP forecasting

How much could AI revolutionize the economy?

The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025

An inside view of the AI revolution, from the people an…

AI FOR EPISTEMICS & COORDINATION

Civilization and technology have radically improved the human condition. Nonetheless, the world sometimes goes in directions which essentially nobody would prefer — e.g., nuclear arms races, unexpected financial crashes, predatory marketing, or ubiquitous political misinformation.

"AI" is Automated Inequality

Tech bros still dominate the discussions about so-called "AI" with false claims. Even most "AI"-critical researchers spend much of their time meticulously debunking (always only a subset of) claims, leaving vast areas of the economic consequences of "AI" unexplored. (Even the "AI"-evangelist Economi

Is there something it is like to be an AI?

Posted on Wednesday 2 Jul 2025. 1,593 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.

March 2026 Global Dialogues Survey | Windfall Trust

Here’s what the world had to say about the AI economy

AI Doesn't Have ROI

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AI Economy Institute - Microsoft Research

The AI Economy Institute (AIEI) is Microsoft’s flagship think tank dedicated to shaping an inclusive, trustworthy AI economy. We building a network of scholars and convening that network with our subject matter experts to explore how artificial intelligence is transforming work, education, and productivity – and making this knowledge base available to policy-makers, educators, and […]