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One analogy to keep in mind—we now have this immigration crisis in the U.S., in Europe, elsewhere. Lots of people are worried about immigrants. Why are people worried about immigrants? There are three main things that come to people’s mind: They will take our jobs. They come with different cultural ideas; they will change our culture. They may have political agendas; they might try to take over the country politically.
Now you can think about the AI revolution as simply a wave of immigration of millions and billions of AI immigrants that will take people’s jobs, that have very different cultural ideas, and that might try to gain some kind of political power.
And these AI immigrants, these digital immigrants, they don’t need visas. They don’t cross the sea in some rickety boat in the middle of the night. They come at the speed of light.
And I look, for instance, at far right parties in Europe. If they care about the sovereignty of their country, if they care about the economic and cultural future of their country, they should be far more worried about the digital immigrants than about the human immigrants. (Source: wsj.com)
2. o3, an artificial intelligence (AI) model developed by the creators of ChatGPT, has been ranked the best AI tool for answering science questions in multiple fields, according to a benchmarking platform launched last week. SciArena, developed by the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2) in Seattle, Washington, ranked 23 large language models (LLMs) according to their answers to scientific questions. The quality of the answers was voted on by 102 researchers. o3, created by OpenAI in San Francisco, California, was ranked the best at answering questions on natural sciences, health care, engineering, and humanities and social science, after more than 13,000 votes. DeepSeek-R1, built by DeepSeek in Hangzhou, China, came second on natural-sciences questions and fourth on engineering. Google’s Gemini-2.5-Pro ranked third in natural sciences and fifth in engineering and health care. (Sources: nature.com, allenai.org)
3. Paul Kedrosky:
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