The One Percent Rule

What I do show students is that the future has a way of arriving ahead of schedule. Which brings me to a report I discussed with students yesterday, if one thing became clear from the Threshold 2030 conference and resulting report, it is that artificial intelligence is no longer a distant speculation, but an economic force barreling toward us with the subtlety of a freight train.

Over two days, thirty of the world’s highly informed AI lab researchers, economists, policy experts, UN staff and professional forecasters gathered to map out three potential futures of AI’s economic impact, none of them reassuringly benign. The discussions, rigorous and, it seems, unflinching, painted a picture not just of transformation, but of upheaval.