Prince Harry, Meghan join open letter calling to ban the development of AI ‘superintelligence’ Also on the list are Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, conservative commentator Steve Bannon, former members of Congress, actors, professors, and many othe rs

Workers in Silicon Valley are pushing themselves to extremes day after day Quick Summary Top AI researchers and executives are working 80 to 100 hours weekly, driven by intense competition. Corporate credit-card transaction data from the expense-management startup Ramp shows a surge in Saturday orders from San Francisco-area restaurants for delivery and takeout from noon to midnight. The pace of AI development has compressed the time from research breakthroughs to product lau

In a new book, Wharton's Jerry Wind and his co-authors argue that creativity is a learnable skill that becomes more powerful when paired with intelligent machines.

In an excerpt from his book ‘The Leader’s Brain,’ Wharton neuroscientist Michael Platt talks about three leadership skills that are critical in an increasingly automated world.

DM Good morning! How do you define equilibrium (in its broadest contexts)? Good morning! What a wonderful question to explore together. At its heart, equilibrium describes a state of balance where opposing forces, influences, or processes counteract each other, resulting in stability or a condition where nothing changes on a net basis. Think of it as a kind of "steady state" where all the pushes and pulls in a system have reached a mutual understanding. Let me build this up f

DM Upon a walk in a forest today, I was considering the diversity of tree leaf shapes, and how each species of tree seems to maintain these shapes. I realize there are many reasons beyond my imagination for this persistent variation. However, I surmise there may be (at least) two primary factors: optimal functional efficiency and optimal environmental durability. So considering the southeastern U.S. forest in which I was walking (which appeared to be relatively mature), and u

What AI to use in late 2025

DM As many wise people have shared, across a variety of contexts, human social attentiveness and caring (aka: compassion) diminishes as a function of "distance" (broadly defined in numerous ways, not only physical). In other words, self-care and immediate family care typically reside at our "care epicenter," ...while our "extended concern, attention and care" for all others suffers varying degrees of decline, thus encompasses incremental reduction of moral social thought, ac

Technology is coming for jobs. Here is why we need to plan, not panic. KEY POINTS Technology has always affected work but the next wave of technology may be different. Work fulfills not only essential physical needs for us but also psychological needs. Even if a work-free world offers physical abundance, we may still experience psychological poverty.

Experimenting with the math and data behind large language models can be exhilarating—and revealing.

DM Good morning. It seems the most important skill required to gain the full benefit (... even threshold value) from A.I. LLMs is "rigorous inquiry," ...which is typically propelled by wide-spectrum, insatiable curiosity. Conversely and paradoxically, this seems the least available (and respected?) skill within the general population; and perhaps even amongst most professionals. Furthermore, future trends seem unfavorable: ... as fast, easy, superficial brain food is increasi

It’s hard to predict how the artificial-intelligence bubble will play out, but here’s a clue. Keep an eye on usage of AI, measured in units known as ‘tokens.’ It’s soaring. Related Also Related Also Related Quick Summary of First Link Above AI companies are experiencing significant financial losses due to unexpectedly high demand for data processing, despite falling unit costs. Google’s AI token processing increased from 9.7 trillion monthly to 1.3 quadrillion, a substantial

DM Good morning Claude. How might theTeilhard de Chardin's construct of a "Noosphere" relate, correlate, or have relevance to our recent conversations, and the many factors thereof (such as: Pantakinesis™, the Universal Holophren™ and the fractals thereof, Non-local consciousness discoveries and their potential relationships to post-death consciousness, Fitness=Truth™ and definition of truths as being personal, etc.). Good morning! What a rich synthesis question! Having revie

A new coalition of 10 major givers, including the Omidyar Network and Ford Foundation, are investing $500 million in an effort to ensure Americans have a say in how artificial intelligence impacts them.

The bank says the U.S. will struggle to meet growing power demands—and stay energy-independent—without renewable projects spurned by the administration. Related: the next big things in energy

Wharton visiting scholar Cornelia Walther explains how AI can help business leaders translate different mindsets and communicate more effectively.

Investment in AI ignites a fire under U.S. economy, but technology hasn’t yet fulfilled promise of making humans work more efficiently Quick Summary AI’s economic impact stems mainly from increased investment and a stock-market rally, not substantial worker-productivity boosts. Economists are divided on AI’s current productivity impact; some note tech-sector gains, others find no strong link outside of tech. Productivity gains are coming, say economists. New technologies just

DM So, it seems by combining our last conversation (re: "non-local consciousness," and the role GABA plays in consciousness "restraint" during life), ..and the content of our other related past conversations, ... we may have arrived at plausible, even logical, hypothesis: That is, the end of life (aka: physical death) may be but a Vanishing Point "Portal" for consciousness to enter a new dimension(s?) of Pantakinesis™ . I do realize we've little or no solid empirical or evid

The outcome of these trends has huge implications for workers, wealth and the future of America’s economy.

China has more industrial robots than the rest of the world combined, but newer, more flexible robots are keeping smaller U.S....