THE BIGGER PICTURE
THE BIGGER PICTURE
See AI in its wider context.
See AI in its wider context.
A curated set of resources about how AI affects work, education, institutions, culture, media, governance, and society.
A curated set of resources about how AI affects work, education, institutions, culture, media, governance, and society.
SOCIETY FEED
SOCIETY FEED
Start here when you want to understand AI beyond the tools and models: how it changes work, reshapes institutions, affects media and culture, raises governance questions, and creates second-order effects that are easy to miss when looking only at product features.
Start here when you want to understand AI beyond the tools and models: how it changes work, reshapes institutions, affects media and culture, raises governance questions, and creates second-order effects that are easy to miss when looking only at product features.
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Why We Need to Tax AI
Senator Elizabeth Warren argues that AI could intensify wealth concentration, job displacement, energy-cost pressure, and financial risk unless policymakers redesign the tax system so the gains from AI are shared more broadly.
China’s AI is quietly making big inroads in Silicon Valley
An article on how Chinese AI models from companies such as Alibaba, Z.ai, Moonshot, MiniMax, and DeepSeek are gaining traction among US companies, especially because of open model availability, lower cost, and improving performance.
The new jobs AI will create
Beating the AI Doom Cycle
A podcast episode that uses the idea of an “AI Doom Cycle” to describe how public reactions to AI can swing from scepticism, to hype, to job-loss anxiety, and then toward a more grounded understanding of how AI adoption is actually unfolding.
After Automation
Dan Shipper argues that AI automation does not simply remove human work. Instead, as routine competence becomes cheaper and more abundant, the demand shifts toward expert human judgment, differentiation, review, and higher-quality work.