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Generating economic growth is difficult. For most of human history, there wasn’t much of it. Now we often take it for granted. Policymakers often think too little about growth impacts when they consider raising taxes ....
Artificial intelligence is becoming more common every year, with applications in industries ranging from medicine to transportation to the service sector. Many people see this technology as a means of finally escaping the disappointing productivity ....
Yesterday, with the inauguration of Joseph R. Biden Jr. as the 46th president of the United States, Andrei Iancu, the director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) since February 2018, logged his last ....
There used to be a lot of telephone operators in America. And now hardly any. When there were hundreds of thousands rather than just a couple of thousand, it was the work of women — ....
What sort of extinction-level catastrophes should we be concerned about? What can we do to meet these challenges? And what are the odds we survive this century? Toby Ord joined Political Economy to discuss these ....
GPT-3 is an AI tool — machine learning, specifically — trained on an extremely large data set that can generate some pretty amazing text when prompted, everything from creative fiction to computer code. It’s also ....
Why has productivity slowed in the past half-century? How can we kick-start innovation in the economy? Could we be on the cusp of a fourth industrial revolution powered by artificial intelligence? Nicholas Crafts joins Political ....
It is one thing to argue that technological progress has diminished or slowed, quite another to argue that such stagnation is permanent. Recently, I ran across a 2005 analysis by physicist Jonathan Huebner, then working ....
Just before Independence Day, the Congressional Budget Office released its updated 10-year economic forecast. Basically, it shows a 5 percent bump in real GDP next year before settling into 2 percent growth mode for the ....
As technology progresses, we find that our advancements offer may protections against some existential risks while creating new ones. So what are the odds that we are living in the last century of human history? ....