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Our new paper explores “agentic inequality”, the potential disparities in power, opportunity, and outcomes stemming from unequal access to, and capabilities of, AI agents. We examine the dual potential of this technology and outline a research agenda. aigi.ox.ac.uk/publications/a…
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Today, we at @OpenAI achieved a milestone that many considered years away: gold medal-level performance on the 2025 IMO with a general reasoning LLM—under the same time limits as humans, without tools. As remarkable as that sounds, it’s even more significant than the headline 🧵
1/N I’m excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world’s most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO).
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Increasingly think this might be the most important chart in the world right now
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Machines of Loving Grace: my essay on how AI could transform the world for the better
darioamodei.com/machines-of-…
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New data out from the Government today. The UK has the most expensive industrial electricity prices in the world. 4X those in the US and 46% above the IEA median. (1/3)
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1/ 📊 New @NBERpubs paper alert! 🚨 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗴𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜: How will Artificial General Intelligence reshape our economic paradigm? Exploring the next big shift in factors of production. #AGIEconomics at nber.org/papers/w32980
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One of the most striking charts this year:
China’s startup ecosystem has almost completely collapsed in the last 5 years.
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Research from Helsinki shows how building more market-rate housing can benefit low and middle-income residents.
Let's break down the "moving chains" and why this matters for housing policy! 🏘️🔬
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Immigrants are disproportionately likely to have founded one of Britain's fastest growing businesses.
I recommend this new report from @TenThinkTank which explains how Britain can attract more foreign born job creators.
tenentrepreneurs.org/job-cre…
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This fake “graph” shown by a US presidential candidate at every rally is a sad lie about immigration.
The new Administration’s policies began in February 2021, not March 2020—obviously.
People lie to conceal. So what is this candidate’s lie sweating to conceal? Thread —>
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We are happy to release the first results of a RCT of a US program that provided $1,000/month unconditionally for 3 years to 1,000 individuals in the treatment group, with a group of 2,000 people receiving $50/month serving as the control.
These are sizable transfers. 1/ 🧵
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1/5 🌐 As 𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, we're on the brink of 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲. What does this mean for financial stability and for the real economy? We explore this future in a new BIS Working Paper:
📈 bis.org/publ/work1194.htm 🔍
#GenAI and emerging AI agents are poised to transform financial intermediation, insurance, asset management and payments. These changes have significant implications for financial stability, prudential policy and spillovers to the real economy bis.org/publ/work1194.htm
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I’m actually very bullish on the UK’s mid-term future:
1. AI: one of the best places in the world to build AI companies + high state capacity in AI relative to peers
2. Science: great uni base, plus bold bets like ARIA
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As we push the boundaries of AI, it's critical that we stay ahead of potential risks.
I'm thrilled to announce @GoogleDeepMind's Frontier Safety Framework - our approach to analyzing and mitigating future risks posed by advanced AI models. 1/N deepmind.google/discover/blo…
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A theoretical and empirical guide to the emerging literature on social protection systems in low- and middle-income countries, from Abhijit Banerjee, @rema_nadeem, @ben_olken, and @dianasver nber.org/papers/w32382
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After @gamblingondev went on the @CCIdotCity podcast (chartercitiesinstitute.org/p…) we commissioned him to write something for us about what philanthropists should do to promote catchup economic growth: openphilanthropy.org/wp-cont…
Excited this is finally out, worth a read!
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"a giant cathedral is completely filled with cats. there are cats everywhere you look. a man enters the cathedral and bows before the giant cat king sitting on a throne."
Video generated by Sora.
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Great paper on Help to Buy by Carozzi, Hilber, and Yu - but a sorry tale of UK policy
It was obvious the subsidy would be capitalised into house prices, they told the government it would be, and - guess what! - it was capitalised into house prices
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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My new paper with @JosephEStiglitz argues that developing economies are at a turning point and need a new growth strategy based on green investment, labor-absorbing services, and new "industrial" policies focused on these two areas drodrik.scholar.harvard.edu/…