// AI vs Humans
Venkatesh Rao: treating intelligence as scarce is the new mercantilism
An essay argues that AI fear repeats an old economic mistake, and that cheap intelligence could raise demand for human thinking instead of ending it.
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An essay argues that AI fear repeats an old economic mistake, and that cheap intelligence could raise demand for human thinking instead of ending it.

Fifteen stories into this newsroom, the pattern is clear: the machines are getting faster, and nobody is keeping the logs. That gap is where humans live now.