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A collection of 13 issues

The Odd Couple Nobody Saw Coming: Main Street and Wall Street on AI's Payday

Some days the universe sprinkles cosmic content dust right in your lap. Moments after I hit “publish” on last week’s post about democratizing the economic spoils of AI via a sovereign wealth fund, Just Capital released new polling research on how the public, investors, and corporate leaders think AI-

From Bernie to Trump: Is A Consensus Building Around Taxing AI Companies?

Did your capitalist eyeballs about bug out of your head earlier this month when Senator Bernie Sanders proposed the creation of a Sovereign Wealth Fund to be funded by a tax on the leading AI companies? Bernie’s move comes as politicians have suddenly (hello!) awakened to the negative economic

A 1% Solution: Khan You Dig It?

I’ve been writing for nearly two years now on the rapacious advance of A.I. and what I believe will be a blitzkrieg that overwhelms the job market. I recently came across an opinion piece by Sal Khan that I thought made a lot of sense as one potential

AI Breaks It, AI Buys It

Four Ways to Make Technology Pay for Job Displacement In my last post (From Dust Bowl to Digital Displacement) I raised the specter of AI creating massive job loss. So, how do we pay for job retraining or even the hallelujah state promised by AI CEOs of finding our bliss

From Dust Bowl to Digital Displacement: Will We Need Another New Deal?

Reader and Godspeed supporter Emma Mattson engaged me recently in a conversation about purpose at work, pointing me to an old episode of The Ezra Klein Show. (The Case Against Loving Your Job, aired in 2021, worth the listen, and deeply influencing Emma’s view on the subject.) I listened,

Radical Abundance

This is the second in a three-part series focusing on the radical ideas that are surfacing among us: radical transparency, radical abundance, and radical reporting. Abundance is having a moment – from the current chart-topping bestseller by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson (Abundance, which I haven’t yet read)

13 Ways of Looking at AI

A poetic musing today – it’s National Poetry Month after all, which I’ve foreshadowed aplenty in recent issues – though to hold the line a bit today’s writing does have overlap with business and technology. I first encountered the poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird in college,

Illustrating Pentagram's AI (Mid)Journey

Pentagram, the world's largest independent design agency, recently showcased its work in creating performance.gov on behalf of the U.S. Federal Government. The work was led by design icon Paula Scher. More noteworthy than Scher's involvement was her team's use of an AI

We Have Met the Enemy

Every once in awhile, a piece of writing stands out in a way that makes you stop, if for a moment, to marvel at the construction of its language and think how the author just did what they did to you; for me, this usually occurs in the pages of

All AI, All the Time

All AI, all the time - or at least this week here at Godspeed as this issue and Thursday's are heavily influenced by my A.I. hallucinations. Well, sort of. Today, Andrew Kassoy lays out a plan in a New York Times Op-Ed for how OpenAI can successfully