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Understanding GDP and Economic Policy

The United States government has proposed to recalculate the GDP by removing government spending from the equation. What would this mean?

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Opinion

Writing, Context, and Generative AI

Generative AI is good at ideas and organizing information, but its lack of contextual awareness, consciousness, and intent limits its usefulness for complex writing. Instead, AI is best as a tool for writers to brainstorm, plan, and organize ideas rather than write complete documents.

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The Jobs AI Can Do — and Those It Shouldn’t

Generative AI's impact on work depends not just on what it can do, but also on factors like task complexity, frequency, and the cost of failure, which determine its practical and economic viability for automation in specific occupations.