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Of course, there are major ethical issues to work out—leaps forward in technology often walk a fine line between deeply-impactful and dystopian. Among the questions we need to figure out:

• Who is responsible for AI’s mistakes?


• Who is the creator of an AI work? Is it the AI? The developers? The person who wrote the prompt? The people whose work was

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The DAO movement claims to be democratizing corporate governance: With a DAO, all investors can vote on the organization’s decisions. But there’s a reason entities of any size, from school districts to shoe companies, adopt a representative model instead of attempting pure democracy. Leadership, expertise, and accountability improve outcomes, vs.... See more

Supply Chain — 75% of U.S. companies have experienced supply chain disruptions due to the COVID-19 outbreak, including mask and ventilator producers — China manufactures roughly half of the world’s masks. Countless examples of U.S. dependence on China for essential materials presents an opportunity and an economic imperative to diversify supply... See more

ChatGPT is not scraping the web and returning a response. Its AI is “thinking” and creating content it believes answers your question. Whether this is the job of a search engine is another matter, but it is undeniably useful for circumstances in which original content like a code snippet, blog post, email draft, or social media post is valuable.   

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One example: the NCAA just changed its likeness rules, meaning that athletes can now earn income as creators. Big-name college stars—many with hundreds of thousands or even millions of fans—can earn income through YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Patreon, and other platforms.

...blockchain-based accounts are particularly apt at persistent pseudonymity through providing a public, pseudonymous, and cross-platform address that displays its actions over time, what Shreyas Hariharan calls on-chain reputation. What we need, then, is a technical stack that supports not an identity, but a collection of identities to navigate... See more

• Millions of people have left jobs over the last year as part of the “Great Resignation”: 4.4 million in September alone.

Some observers argue that the market worked as intended, correcting for unrealistic optimism on the part of venture capitalists and private equity investors who poured millions into these businesses without fully interrogating whether the business models worked...a growing chorus of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are deciding that if the IPO... See more