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What Problems Should AI Be Solving?

The Wall Street Journal · Roland Fryer · last updated

I’ve spent much of the summer talking with technology executives about artificial intelligence. The only word I hear more often than “AI” is “abundance.” Not far behind is “socialism,” usually accompanied by bewilderment. Why, they wonder, are so many Americans, especially young ones, attracted to an economic system that has failed so spectacularly elsewhere? I’m beginning to think their enthusiasm for abundance and their bewilderment about socialism are connected.

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