WASHINGTON, DC—When European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was delivering her State of the Union address in Strasbourg, I was in Washington at a meeting of the Global Advisory Committee of the Energy Futures Initiative Foundation, created and led by former US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz. In Strasbourg, von der Leyen set out a bold ambition: “Let’s make Europe’s future electric.” In Washington, we grappled with a sobering reality: electrons alone cannot power economies.

Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty Images Economics 0 A Central European Model for EU Growth Marcin Piatkowski points to the region’s success as evidence that convergence remains Europe’s most effective growth strategy.

A Central European Model for EU Growth

Matteo Della Torre/NurPhoto via Getty Images Free to read Longer Reads 4 Does Claude Have Rights? Mustafa Suleyman Unlike living beings, AIs are not moral subjects, and that is how they must remain. But a growing chorus of people argue that AIs could now be, or may soon become, conscious, and that, like other conscious beings, they may deserve rights and protections. worries that Anthropic is training a simulation of a moral subject that could demand freedom.

Does Claude Have Rights?

Unlike living beings, AIs are not moral subjects, and that is how they must remain. But a growing chorus of people argue that AIs could now be, or may soon become, conscious, and that, like other conscious beings, they may deserve rights and protections.

Alex Wong/Getty Images Economics 6 The AI Productivity Delusion Yanis Varoufakis As with previous technological revolutions, it is natural to focus on AI's net effects: Will it create more than it destroys? But unlike previous eras of creative destruction, the real question this time is, “Create more of what?” sees the technology converting markets into fiefs and profits into rents, ending capitalism as we know it.

The AI Productivity Delusion

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