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China had the most positive public attitude towards AI out of 23 countries while the US was second to last in a 2024 survey by Ipsos. And this was before DeepSeek R1. Q: “Products & services using AI make me excited. How much do you agree/disagree?”

It is mind-blowing to me that only 7% of Plus users were using o3.

"terms of service liberalism" is an all-time phrase

One of the least known, most important facts about life in Latin America: most people can turn to police for order & security, but 1 in 6 are also governed by gangs and criminal groups—that’s 77–101 million Latin Americans under some kind of gang rule.

I’ve long said what I worried most about re: AI was a weaponised attention grab & AI boyfriends/girlfriends… but I’m still disturbed by the # of people who want AI to be their artificial friend, flirt, companion, or cheerleader & who revolted when their drug (4o) was taken away.

AI adoption at work in the EU : Denmark 🇩🇰, Sweden🇸🇪, Belgium 🇧🇪, Finland 🇫🇮 in the top, with also Lux. 🇱🇺, Netherlands 🇳🇱, Slovenia 🇸🇮 and Austria 🇦🇹above 20% adoption (enterprises >10 people, 2024 data, EU_Eurostat). More info: shorturl.at/v2vl2

The Indian state of Tamil Nadu is an impressive case study in industrial policy at the subnational level: - 1/7 manufacturing jobs in India - Industrial clusters: auto, electronics… - Its own MITI super agency: DIIPC Fantastic piece by Mausam Kumar & co: phenomenalworld.org/analysis/coord…

I don’t want to live in a world with “AI relationships.” I understand there’s loneliness & many people lead hard lives — but it is so hard for me to see this AI parasite virus take over vulnerable people’s minds. Deeply irresponsible OpenAI. Cut off the supply 💉💊 #kill4o

Meta is by far my least favorite big tech company and it’s precisely because they’re willing to ship awful, dystopian stuff like this No inspiring vision, just endless slop and a desire to “win”

Very interesting read on the future of war, including how AI-assisted drone warfare is changing the relative state/non-state & offense/defense balance — most notably in Ukraine and in the US/China relationship. Read!

I was mesmerised by this interview and felt HOPE (in 2025!) for our future. Thoughtful, civic, graceful, inclusive and tolerant liberalism is due a renaissance, and Sarah McBride is here to deliver it.

Is AI already impacting the job market? A new paper from me, Erik Brynjolfsson, and Ruyu Chen at Stanford Digital Economy Lab digs into data from ADP. We find some of the ***first large-scale evidence of employment declines for entry-level workers in AI-exposed jobs.*** A thread on our paper:

A careful study of every populist episode since 1900 finds catastrophic consequences, which play out slowly. On average, incomes fall behind by nearly 15% over 15 years. For the U.S., this is a cost of about $13k per person per year. Over a lifetime, that's million bucks.

The New York Times editorial board writes: America Mourns Charlie Kirk The assassination of Charlie Kirk — the founder of a youth political movement that helped revolutionize modern conservatism — at Utah Valley University on Wednesday is a tragedy. His killing is also part of

I've been working in policy for about 8 years and it's striking how uninterested the field is with economics. To the extent that economists get invited, it's to justify existing bad ideas ex post. The only exception is maybe central banking. I think part of it is policymakers and

Since the 1970s, the share of UK MPs that were engineers has fallen from 5% to around 1% today. Legal representation has remained relatively robust, although dropping over the Thatcher-Major period.

OpenAI just released the largest-ever report on how consumers are using ChatGPT. It looks at millions of (anonymized) messages over the last 3 years to analyze usage evolution over time. Key takeaways 👇

This could be “the largest public corruption scandal in the history of the United States"—amounting to a $2B bribe from an Emirati royal and the sale of the world’s most valuable artificial intelligence chips to the UAE, despite national security concern. trib.al/xg5hGXE

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Everyone is getting this Jimmy Kimmel thing wrong. A) It's not cancel culture when it comes from the government. It is censorship and state repression, just like in traditional authoritarian regimes. B) Kimmel wasn't taken off the air for crotizing Kirk. He was taken off for