Is there an increasing gender gap in young people's ideology across the developed world? Yes, at least in the long term. But there is significant country-level variation. The graph: 126,072 individuals in 21 developed countries over 70 years. Below, specific countries.

Such a honour to chat with Joseph E. Stiglitz & Tim O'Reilly about competition and Big Tech at the Social Sciences Foo Camp

Gary Marcus An even simpler test: a person writing with their left hand Surprising because it should be in the training data

What a lovely evening I spent with Richard Nelson, talking about the Moons and the Ghettoes of our time.

A striking and very welcome mea culpa from Nobel prize-winning economist Angus Deaton - in the IMF of all places - on how economics lost its way by ignoring corporate power, downplaying ethics, stigmatising unions and fetishising efficiency. imf.org/en/Publication…

In my latest piece Project Syndicate, Fausto Gernone and I argue that governments must assume an active role in AI development by designing systems and shaping markets for the common good. Read: project-syndicate.org/magazine/gover…

"proposed AI solutions can also exploit our cognitive limitations, making us vulnerable to illusions of understanding in which we believe we understand more about the world than we actually do." Messeri & Crockett 2024 nature.com/articles/s4158…

In my latest piece Project Syndicate, Fausto Gernone and I argue that governments must assume an active role in AI development by designing systems and shaping markets for the common good. Read: project-syndicate.org/magazine/gover…

Evolution of value capture strategies in the videogame software industry. Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK (AFK) would call it Enshittification

The history of technological innovation makes clear that governments must step in immediately to shape the incentives driving AI development, write Mariana Mazzucato and Fausto Gernone of UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. bit.ly/3TETz6r

A 23% wage increase led to a 4% price increase. That's called winning at policymaking.

Free to read at the link: The history of technological innovation makes clear that governments must step in immediately to shape the incentives driving AI development, write Mariana Mazzucato and Fausto Gernone of UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. bit.ly/44oi9x6

2021 country-by-country data are out: US multinationals booked more profits in Ireland and Singapore than in the UK + Canada + Germany + Mexico + China + India combined Congratulations to the highly productive Irish & Singapore workers*! * and also to the tax accountants

Chat GPT-4o is quite impressive. Of course, it is a sign that OpenAI is facing diminishing returns, but that's not surprising. That will be solved through vertical integration - Big Tech will be Big Tech.

Did you know that in 2023, Amazon, Microsoft & Google poured more capital into AI start-ups than any other investor?  Our new report with Cecilia Rikap reveals the extent to which Big Tech companies use the cloud to control the entire AI ecosystem. ⬇️ common-wealth.org/publications/d…

Climate and culture-based theories of development are dumb

Beautiful read by ⁦Evgeny Morozov⁩ on.ft.com/4bvDtmE

It's time we figure out how to identify and tackle bottlenecks. We need new tools to understand complex systems. #outage #Crowdstrike

Vaughn Svendsen Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 This story that Biden caused inflation, implying that it was purely a demand side phenomenon, is a good litmus test for economic illiteracy

Honoured to contribute to this amazing event reflecting on the critical work of the South African CompComSA, alongside Centre for Sustainable Structural Transformation colleagues & friends, Simon Roberts, Pamela Mondliwa, Thando Vilakazi, Reena das Nair CCRED & Fiona Tregenna SARChI Industrial Development Link to panel: youtube.com/live/66-pZBsjj…