- “The future of American philanthropy isn’t the central drama of the A.I. age, but it isn’t a sideshow, either. As Nan Ransohoff wrote this week on Substack, A.I. wealth could soon add as much as $100 billion to American charitable giving every year. She describes this as a potential “third wave” of philanthropy, after the now-distant Carnegie and Rockefeller era and the recent Bill Gates and Warren Buffett wave. And she expects it to be focused on the “A.I. transition” and what lies beyond, especially questions of “flourishing, meaning and what makes a life good” in the shadow of increasingly capable machines,” writes Ross Douthat.
- “China is speeding towards a future in which AI chooses, purchases and delivers many of the goods and services people consume, upending its digital economy in the process,” via Economist.
- The blazer’s definition has expanded and so has its popularity.
- From Brandon Vaidyanathan on a new Gallup survey on beauty funded by a JTF grant: “The second is that 89% of Americans find beauty in relationships and in moral/virtuous behavior of others.”