Now that you can make almost infinite words at pretty much zero cost, does that mean that the value of a word is now zero? Not good for professional writers, or strategists, or anyone who communicates the value of their work through words. Is it a resistance to this displacement, which is causing increasing backlash against AI writing? (‘Slop’)? Or is it perhaps a sense that a lot of what it is to be human is expressed in language, and

The AI boom whose epicentre is the US economy has been driven by extraordinary valuations of the principal AI companies and by colossal fixed investment supporting their growth. The US economy has diverted its resources into the AI industry: what if it’s a bubble? What if it’s all predicated on the delivery of something (artificial general or super-intelligence, AGI or ASI) that will never arrive? If the bubble bursts, it will hurt the US but, as usual, it will probably