{"id":8883,"date":"2026-08-23T03:31:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T03:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8883"},"modified":"2026-08-23T03:31:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T03:31:43","slug":"we-must-act-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8883","title":{"rendered":"We Must Act Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/08\/18\/nx-s1-5910677\/recent-college-graduates-employment-job-artificial-intelligence\">NPR article on whether new graduates are losing jobs to AI<\/a>, I learned about a short open letter signed by numerous economists, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wemustactnow.ai\/\">We Must Act Now<br>A Statement on AI\u2019s Transformation of the Economy<\/a>. The text of the letter is just three short points to the effect of, 1) AI is getting better and better, 2) there may be significant economic disruption in a short period of time including job displacement, therefore, 3),<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Economists, policymakers and technology leaders must act now to understand the economics of transformative AI and to build the incentives, guardrails, and institutions needed to steer AI in a direction that complements humans and benefits society.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an NPR article on whether new graduates are losing jobs to AI, I learned about a short open letter signed by numerous economists, We Must Act NowA Statement on AI\u2019s Transformation of the Economy. The text of the letter is just three short points to the effect of, 1) AI is getting better and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8883\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We Must Act Now<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,58,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-ethics-of-data-science","category-media-and-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8884,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883\/revisions\/8884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}