Good morning.
Much of the commentary around generative A.I.—including my own—has focused on negative implications for society. I’ve been particularly disturbed by the tendency of large language models to just make stuff up—or “hallucinate”—occurrences that technology experts tell me are more feature than bug.
This morning, some good news. Economists generally agree that technology has fed inequality in advanced societies over recent decades, putting outsized power and money in the hands of math nerds, computer geeks, and other over-educated experts. But there’s emerging evidence that generative A.I. may be the first computer technology wave that has the opposite effects.
