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How to Prepare for the AI Takeover
A conversation with economist and Free Press columnist Tyler Cowen and Anthropic chief of staff Avital Balwit on the coming revolution.
Bari Weiss
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My Robot Sophia Wasn’t Just a Machine. I Loved Her.
I shared a 500-square-foot apartment with a humanoid robot and a very confused boyfriend. It was strangely beautiful.
Sarah Rose Siskind
AI Will Change What It Is to Be Human. Are We Ready?
This technology can usher in an age of flourishing the likes of which we have never seen. It will also foment a crisis about what it is to be a person…
Tyler Cowen and  Avital Balwit
Who Is Helped By the Sanctions Against China? China
The economic sanctions against Russia were a failure. So why is the U.S. using the same tactic against the Chinese?
Doomberg
The Intellectual Godfathers of Protectionism
Once shunned, globalization’s doubters turned out to be right about its destructive economic and social consequences. What do they think of what Trump…
Joe Nocera
The Ultimate Mic Drop: Warren Buffett Saves His Best for Last
Warren Buffett is not like other billionaires. He has no side hustles—no space company or massive foundation. That’s been among his great gifts.
Maxwell Meyer
Kevin O’Leary: Tariffs on Chinese Goods Should be 400 Percent
China has never complied with the rules of international trade. It’s time to hold them accountable.
Kevin O’Leary
With Tariffs, It’s the Uncertainty, Stupid
‘So long as uncertainty reigns,’ said one chief executive, ‘money will stay on the sidelines.’
Peter Coy
James Grant: The Case for Buying Gold
‘Monetary disorder, political upheaval, disarranged public finances, and war are its mother’s milk, and the gold price has duly risen.’
James Grant
China and America Agree: Apple Is Too Big to Fail
The problem with building iPhones in America isn’t that they’d be priced at $3,500 each. It’s that they wouldn’t be built at all.
Patrick McGee
Is the Dire Wolf Truly Back from the Dead?
After a start-up claimed to have de-extincted a species, the internet called BS. But the founders insist it’s real—and the woolly mammoth is next.
Johanna Berkman
Working-Class Americans—Like My Family—Will Be Hit Hardest by Trump’s Tariffs
My hometown was wrecked by deindustrialization. These tariffs will only make things worse.
River Page
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