Rachel Lomasky ventures a thoughtful exploration of the future of artificial intelligence. Writing in Law & Liberty, Lomasky suggests AI’s trajectory is promising, with many benefits for creativity and productivity. Despite AI’s complicated and numerous social implications, Lomasky proposes that we would be mistaken to extrapolate that ominous trajectory too far.
At Least He Paid his Losing Bet
Paul Ehrlich, author of the spectacularly incorrect 1968 best-seller The Population Bomb, recently died at 93. Despite his longevity, Ronald Bailey points out in Reason, Ehrlich did not live to see even one of his numerous apocalyptic predictions come true. The world’s population certainly grew, but not merely larger, richer and fatter too. Most famously, Ehrlich once bet economist Julian Simon that the world was approaching economic collapse – but in 1990 had to mail Simon a cheque.


