Masterclass from Martin Wolf: The threat and promise of artificial intelligence
Am leaving the appalling story of SA supplying arms to Russia aside today, but if you're interested in more detail, click here for the BizNews story and the way the FT shared the news with the rest of the world. Instead, we're focusing here on the big story of the economy – artificial intelligence.
Martin Wolf, the FT's chief economics commentator, has made a career of publicly exposing highlighting economic policy mistakes. It's his life's mission as he believes bad economics visits needless pain on society and was a root cause of the Second World War (in which his mother's family lost 30 members).
Occasionally, the 76 year old whose work is celebrated in global portals of power, steps outside of his core area. He did so this week in a superb analysis of AI republished below. It provides much needed context on the hype and a base from which to grow our knowledge about the ways this revolution will impact our futures.
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