AI, technology, education, and ideas about what comes next.
The Navier–Stokes controversy reveals a deeper problem with AI: we may not recognize the value of the ideas, research directions, and cognitive material we expose to increasingly powerful systems.
If humanity’s accumulated knowledge helps create extraordinary AI wealth, should humanity receive more than a basic income?
If AI companies can commercially learn from humanity’s knowledge, should humanity receive a return?
AI may make intelligence abundant. But if access to that intelligence remains unequal, the future could be extraordinarily good for some—and surprisingly difficult for everyone else.
AI may do more than replace individual tasks. By automating information processing, coordination and decision-making, it could compress the managerial hierarchy itself.