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Voters want someone they trust to change the economic deal Graham Platner’s victory in the Maine Democratic primary, despite controversies that would sink more conventional candidates, shows us that voters are not simply rejecting incumbents. They are responding to candidates – even those with pretty dire baggage – who speak to a widespread belief that the economic system is increasingly rigged in favour of billionaires and large corporations. In my research with Harvard professor Taeku Lee, based on surveys of more than 36,000 voters across the US, UK, France and Germany, we see a hidden wave of voter opinion that is hostile to big corporations and billionaire influence. Pepper Culpepper is professor at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government and author of Billionaire Backlash: The Age of Corporate Scandal and How It Could Save Democracy Continue reading...
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AI's mixed success on novel math problems highlights its potential and limitations, prompting further exploration of its role in research. The post Mathematicians grade AI performance on complex problem set at Harvard appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Anthropic and OpenAI could join SpaceX with their own initial public offerings, setting many employees up to become millionaires or billionaires.
A new Harvard and Perplexity paper uses matched-pair sessions to compare an autonomous agent with a search assistant. It finds large gains in autonomy, time, and cost, plus broader scope of work attempted. The post A New Study from Harvard and Perplexity Finds AI Agents Perform 26 Minutes of Autonomous Work per Session vs 33 Seconds for Search appeared first on MarkTechPost.
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While we do not outright oppose the taking of AI company stock, or of a US a sovereign wealth fund, there are better ways to achieve the senator’s goals Let no one accuse Bernie Sanders of ducking the big questions. Writing in the New York Times last week, the senator asked: “Will the future of humanity be determined by a handful of billionaires who have promoted and developed AI, with virtually no democratic input, who stand to become even richer and more powerful than they are today?” We agree entirely that this is one of the most potent questions facing global democracy today. Our book, Rewiring Democracy, surveys the emerging uses for and impacts of AI in democracy around the world and reaches the same conclusion: that the most urgent risk posed by AI is the concentration of power, wealth and control among tech oligarchs. Continue reading...
The hot new productivity hack for C.E.O.s and Harvard professors? A.I. twins that answer questions and attend meetings.
Tether-linked billionaire Christopher Harborne and BitMEX co-founder Ben Delo donated $9.4 million to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in the first quarter.
