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Ethan McGowan

Minimum wages insure routine workers inside firms Shocks tend to push adjustment onto high-skill jobs Policy must pair the firm-level minimum wage with portable support for talent The increase in South Kore

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Ethan McGowan

Advanced economies push AI policy because productivity gains are visible and immediate Poorer countries lag as low returns and weak capacity dampen urgency Education policy can still slow the widening AI divide Since the em

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David O'Neill

Schools are banning AI while workplaces are adopting it, creating a growing skills gap AI literacy must be taught through teachers and curriculum, not enforced through restrictions on students The real policy failure is institutional resistance to change, not student misuse of technology

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Keith Lee

The AI fluency gap is becoming the new digital divide, reshaping who advances and who falls behind at work Only a small group of fluent users capture most of AI’s productivity gains, concentrating power and opportunity Education systems and policy must act now to make AI fluency a shared public skill, not a private advantage

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Ethan McGowan

AI is triggering a new global divergence, much like the industrial revolutions before it Countries that control AI systems and skills will gain lasting economic and institutional power Education and policy now decide who leads and who is left behind

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Keith Lee

China’s AI edge is increasingly driven by faster, cheaper access to power and land U.S.

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Ethan McGowan

AI-driven automation is shrinking both labor and consumption tax bases A robot tax is becoming a practical fiscal tool, not a provocation Welfare systems may also need less funding as labor is partially emancipated In 2024, the average de

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Ethan McGowan

AI adoption in Europe is still limited, with most firms using AI only as a supporting tool The gap between AI hype and real workplace use reflects risk, skills gaps, and institutional limits Policy and education must focus on practical capacity, not promises of rapid transformation

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Ethan McGowan

Health data monetization is failing because patients do not trust technology firms with sensitive medical records Turning health data into a commodity ignores consent, governance, and healthcare’s real economics Without strong safeguards and public oversight, most health data projects will keep breaking down

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Catherine McGuire

Physical AI moves intelligence from screens into systems that act in the real world In education, AI shifts from a tool to shared infrastructure with new governance risks The policy challenge is managing embodied intelligence at institutional scale

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Catherine McGuire

AI in education needs compute; cooling drives water, power, and trust costs Require verified standards for data center water cooling, power, and heat reuse Site compute in low-water regions and reuse heat to scale AI responsibly Operatin

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Keith Lee

Human-like AI can blur boundaries for students in schools Use clear identity labels, distance-by-default design, and distress safeguards Align law, procurement, and classroom practice to keep learning human We often say pres

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Catherine McGuire

Orbital data centers could ease power and cooling limits on Earth The costs and climate trade-offs are still unclear Education should set rules now before orbit becomes a new dependency Global data centers consumed roughly 415 TW

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David O'Neill

Generative AI lifts advanced economies faster due to compute, connectivity, and wages Education faces a widening generative AI productivity gap without solid infrastructure Front-load broadband and compute, standardize platforms, and train teachers to close it

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Ethan McGowan

SB 53 is AI safety policy that also shapes U.S.

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Keith Lee

Fast AI PhDs won’t fix hiring if training stays shallow Firms need proof of real research skills, not faster diplomas Rigor and outcomes must drive funding and standards Available data indicate that Korea's a

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Ethan McGowan

AI turns rumors into instant, system-wide stress Shared models and platforms cause herding and correlated errors Use timed frictions, model diversity, and critical-hub oversight The most important number in finance

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Catherine McGuire

AI video streaming is mainstream; tools are easier, directing still matters Without rights, provenance, and QC, slop scales and trust falls Train hybrids and set standards to gain speed without losing story Back in D

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Ethan McGowan

AI talking toys: brief, supervised language coaches Ban open chat; require child-safe defaults and on-device limits Regulate like car seats with tests, labels, and audits Right now, there’s something interesting happenin

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Catherine McGuire

LLMs slash coordination costs in teams Design- and model-minded co-create, instantly Protect diversity with drafts, provenance, human review Every second, a new developer is signing up for GitHub.

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