NYTimes: “There’s an ocean of distance between the “patient” that A.I. is analyzing and the patient that the human doctor or nurse is assessing. Navigating the gap is something writers also grapple with. When making a diagnosis, as it were, of good writing to publish in the literary journal I edit, I look for characters that are fully realized, with physicality that is palpable and an emotional complexity both visceral and vivid. These details aren’t always made explicit, but pieced together in hints and subtle cues. What I’ve realized over the years is this is not so different from what a doctor has to do when assessing her patient’s health. This is the inherent limitation of A.I. in medicine. It’s simply impossible — at least for now — for these tools to truly see the multidimensional patient.”
Donald Boudreaux: “Whenever economic change occurs, some particular workers lose jobs, and some particular locations lose business and population. Economic growth requires economic change and adjustment. It always has and always will. But the story of America is that ordinary people not only recover over time, but become wealthier. It’s an error to single out the freer trade of the past few decades as a unique source of economic change that justifies greater skepticism of globalization.”
Jack Clark: “I now believe we are living in the time that AI research will be end-to-end automated. If that happens, we will cross a Rubicon into a nearly-impossible-to-forecast future…The purpose of this essay is to enumerate why I think the takeoff towards fully automated AI R&D is happening. I’ll discuss some of the consequences of this, but mostly I expect to spend the majority of this essay discussing the evidence for this belief, and will spend most of 2026 working through the implications.”
McKinsey: “In time, AI will affect every industry, but it will not create value in the same way everywhere—or for everyone. The companies best positioned for this disruption will treat AI as a strategic inflection point. They will use productivity gains to stay in the game, innovation to expand and defend profit pools, and early, deliberate choices to shape emerging market structures and their role within them.”
