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Essays on AI economics, responsible AI, societal impact, and what it means to think carefully in the age of LLMs.

Gedankenexperiment · Part 2March 2025 · 14 min read

Societal Impacts and US Income Distribution in the Age of AI

AI, Productivity, and the Future of Income Distribution: Four Paths for Society

Drawing on Erik Brynjolfsson's GDP-B framework and the macroeconomics of AI, this essay maps four possible futures for how AI-driven productivity growth could reshape income distribution in the United States — and what policy choices would steer us toward or away from each.

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AI Ethics · StanfordNovember 2025 · 5 min

McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, Stanford

Reflections on participating in Stanford's Ethics, Technology + Public Policy for Practitioners course — weekly readings, Stanford professors and guest speakers, and a diverse global cohort debating the issues of the day.

Gedankenexperiment · Part 12025

How to Think and Essay in the Age of LLMs

The first Gedankenexperiment: on using LLMs as a thinking tool, and what it means to essay — to try, to test, to reason out loud — when the machine can draft faster than you can think.

Economics of AIJuly 2024 · 3 min

Economic Future of AI: Automation or Augmentation

McKinsey projects 30% of US work hours could be automated by 2030. Brynjolfsson and Unger sketch the possible forks — and argue that which one we land on depends on policy, not just technology.

AI TechnologyJuly 2024 · 3 min

AI Technology Trends, Scaling Laws and Meta Cognition

Optimistic about continued AI technical progress — and firm on the need for Responsible AI. Engaging with Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness and the question of what scaling laws actually tell us.

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