Tyler Cowen
Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved his position on AI in public more than once.
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Marginal RevolutionBlog The economics blog they write with Alex Tabarrok, since 2003.
Several posts a day on economics, books, travel and culture. Written with Alex Tabarrok, so no feed is attached here: one feed carries both writers' posts, and this page must not attribute the other's words to them.
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AI-related cybersecurity damage over the next year or two will fall well short of the harm caused by Covid or global warming
When it comes to the cybersecurity risks from advanced AI, very likely they will not come close to being as bad as either Covid or global warming.
The Hugging Face hack Said 1 Sept 2026
Societies have a pattern of drastically overreacting to a problem after one emotionally vivid incident, as with DDT, Y2K, and nuclear power
Yet each time, we drastically overreacted, letting ourselves get swept up in a climate of fear after one emotionally vivid incident
The Hugging Face hack Said 1 Sept 2026
AI systems are not sentient, and the odds of them being sentient are vanishingly small.
I am very much opposed to the view that the AIs are sentient, or might be sentient. I view that as a category error , and the chances of it being true are vanishingly small.
Anthropomorphizing AI? Said 31 Aug 2026
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Even well-informed AI insiders frequently develop something like "AI psychosis" from engaging with these ideas.
Though be very, very careful when speaking with others, whether it be the less informed public or the more informed insiders who often come down with AI psychosis.
Anthropomorphizing AI? Said 31 Aug 2026
Western export bans have not reduced Russian demand for brand-name SUVs and trucks, driving a criminal network that smuggles stolen vehicles to Russia via the Middle East.
While Western export bans have severed Russia from much of the auto market, they have not tempered the demand for brand-name SUVs and trucks. That has given rise to a sophisticated network of criminals that steals cars, hides them in shipping containers and sends them to Russia, often by way of the Middle East
Russia markets in everything Said 30 Aug 2026
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- Societies have a pattern of drastically overreacting to a problem after one emotionally vivid incident, as with DDT, Y2K, and nuclear power 1 Sept
- AI-related cybersecurity damage over the next year or two will fall well short of the harm caused by Covid or global warming 1 Sept
- Even well-informed AI insiders frequently develop something like "AI psychosis" from engaging with these ideas. 31 Aug
- AI systems are not sentient, and the odds of them being sentient are vanishingly small. 31 Aug
- Western export bans have not reduced Russian demand for brand-name SUVs and trucks, driving a criminal network that smuggles stolen vehicles to Russia via the Middle East. 30 Aug