Friday assorted links

1. Rob Wiblin interviews Rohin Shah, who leads AGI alignment/safety at DeepMind.

2. Books Arnold Kling has reread.

3. Wemby and Star Wars.

4. Even (especially?) for ontologists, supply is elastic.

5. SSRN is getting worse.

6. Major layoffs at The New School.

7. New forthcoming Ethan Mollick AI book.

8. “Scientists at Columbia University have edited the DNA of early human embryos with unprecedented accuracy, an achievement that could open the way to babies engineered with particular characteristics.” (NYT)

9. How much is AI boosting productivity anyway? (FT)  A much-needed dose of sanity.

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