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Ohioan senator JD Vance, argues monetary policy—which includes interest rates—should "fundamentally be a political decision."

Plus: Gridlock, baby bonuses, priests, and more...

Revolutionary AI technologies can't solve the 'wicked problems' facing policy makers.

Plus: Greta Thunberg gets booted from Israeli schools, Spain gets even less serious about work, regulating skyline views, and more...

How ambitious are you? That’s a favoured question of the economist Tyler Cowen, co-author of a recent book on talent, who likes to ask it in job interviews. I suppose because both the answer and the way people come to their answer are revealing. Go on, try it on yourself.

Economist Tyler Cowen elaborates on some of the reasons why. The root of the problem is that voters have poor incentives to become well-informed and evaluate information objectively.

Patrick Collison, the now 34-year-old billionaire CEO of the online payments company Stripe, and economist Tyler Cowen worried scientific progress seemed to be slowing down

Your employees could be less productive because the last three years were just such a huge bummer, the influential blogger and columnist wrote.

ChatGPT is often cited as the most rapidly adopted consumer product of all time. Quite aside from its technological capabilities, the success of ChatGPT is an impressive feat of marketing — and I hope it heralds a new wave of campaigns based not on pandering but on authenticity.

The designer of China's Great Firewall sees new A.I. tech as a concern for public authorities.

With the introduction of GPT-4 and Claude, AI has taken another big step forward. GPT-4 is human-level or better at many hard tasks, a huge improvement over GPT-3.5, which was released only a few months ago. Yet amid the debate over these advances, there has been very little discussion of…