Arun Sundararajan
@digitalarun.bsky.social
NYU professor. Author, “The Sharing Economy.” Thinking about AI governance, platforms, IP, the ownership of human capital and the future of work. https://digitalarun.io/
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Potential legislative solutions to this challenge include the Retirement Savings for Americans Act of 2023 and the Portable Benefits for Independent Workers Pilot Program Act.
@digitalarun.bsky.social describes these and others in more detail in the article.
www.brookings.edu/articles/wor...
@digitalarun.bsky.social describes these and others in more detail in the article.
www.brookings.edu/articles/wor...
Workforce capacity development and occupational transitions with dignity
Arun Sundararajan explores how digital disruption is transforming work and calls for new systems to support a post-employment economy.
www.brookings.edu
April 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Potential legislative solutions to this challenge include the Retirement Savings for Americans Act of 2023 and the Portable Benefits for Independent Workers Pilot Program Act.
@digitalarun.bsky.social describes these and others in more detail in the article.
www.brookings.edu/articles/wor...
@digitalarun.bsky.social describes these and others in more detail in the article.
www.brookings.edu/articles/wor...
a long article about whether the “power of the purse” that Congress wields is a floor or a ceiling on Presidential spending.
The History of Impoundments Before the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 | The Center for Renewing America
Defenders of the Impoundment Control Act misunderstand the power of the purse, overread Supreme Court precedent, and fail to address unbroken Executive impoundment practice and congressional acquiesce...
americarenewing.com
February 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
a long article about whether the “power of the purse” that Congress wields is a floor or a ceiling on Presidential spending.
a fun (long) read from @caity.bsky.social. As Kramer once said, it’s “a story about love, deception, greed, lust and unbridled enthusiasm. yes, that’s what led to Billy Mumphrey’s downfall…”
How My Trip to Quit Sugar Quickly Became a Journey Into Hell
For my whole life, I’ve been a hard-core sweets junkie. Could a spa help me quit in a week?
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
a fun (long) read from @caity.bsky.social. As Kramer once said, it’s “a story about love, deception, greed, lust and unbridled enthusiasm. yes, that’s what led to Billy Mumphrey’s downfall…”
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Our first Tech Leadership Lab of 2025 is on Wednesday 02/05 at 4:45PM: former Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson chats with @digitalarun.bsky.social about guiding Etsy from startup to IPO and beyond, growing revenue 14x 2011-2017, and lessons since imparted to dozens of startups. Sign up: bit.ly/dickersonTLL
January 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Our first Tech Leadership Lab of 2025 is on Wednesday 02/05 at 4:45PM: former Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson chats with @digitalarun.bsky.social about guiding Etsy from startup to IPO and beyond, growing revenue 14x 2011-2017, and lessons since imparted to dozens of startups. Sign up: bit.ly/dickersonTLL
How? By shifting youth thinking from “Capitalism is good and an enabler of the good society” to “Capitalism is evil and should be torn down.” You might disagree with him and see this as a narrative fitted retrospectively to justify today’s position — but its a fascinating perspective nevertheless.
Opinion | How Democrats Drove Silicon Valley Into Trump’s Arms
Marc Andreessen explains the newest faction of conservatism.
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
How? By shifting youth thinking from “Capitalism is good and an enabler of the good society” to “Capitalism is evil and should be torn down.” You might disagree with him and see this as a narrative fitted retrospectively to justify today’s position — but its a fascinating perspective nevertheless.
Before we compete with AI for our jobs, we’ll be competing with it for our electricity. This issue will be central to the AI policy debate.
Infrastructure power needs are also going to be a critical constraint for many countries seeking AI sovereignty.
Infrastructure power needs are also going to be a critical constraint for many countries seeking AI sovereignty.
Statement by President Biden on the Executive Order on Advancing U.S. Leadership in Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure | The White House
The United States leads the world at the frontier of artificial intelligence (AI). Cutting-edge AI will have profound implications for national security
www.whitehouse.gov
January 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Before we compete with AI for our jobs, we’ll be competing with it for our electricity. This issue will be central to the AI policy debate.
Infrastructure power needs are also going to be a critical constraint for many countries seeking AI sovereignty.
Infrastructure power needs are also going to be a critical constraint for many countries seeking AI sovereignty.
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Our next Fireside Chat features Markus Herrmann Chen of the China Macro Group. Join us Monday, January 27th at 12:30PM to discuss the #TikTokBan and what the incoming Trump administration could mean for China's tech sector and US-China tech competition.
Register now: bit.ly/mhchen
Register now: bit.ly/mhchen
January 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Our next Fireside Chat features Markus Herrmann Chen of the China Macro Group. Join us Monday, January 27th at 12:30PM to discuss the #TikTokBan and what the incoming Trump administration could mean for China's tech sector and US-China tech competition.
Register now: bit.ly/mhchen
Register now: bit.ly/mhchen
The week’s more visible changes in Meta content filtering obscured these revelations about their training data governance choices. Here’s hoping 2025 brings greater clarity about how broadly the #fairuse doctrine covers copyrighted works being used to train #AI systems like ChatGPT, Claude and Llama
Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims | TechCrunch
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team approval to train on copyrighted documents, according to a new court filing.
techcrunch.com
January 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The week’s more visible changes in Meta content filtering obscured these revelations about their training data governance choices. Here’s hoping 2025 brings greater clarity about how broadly the #fairuse doctrine covers copyrighted works being used to train #AI systems like ChatGPT, Claude and Llama
“Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; quite the contrary, it is a truly divine way of life, so long as one is not bored,” Kierkegaard wrote.
I wrote an essay about our bottomless thirst for diversion and how avoiding boredom is the engine of modern life. It’s based on the research I did for my book.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/o...
Opinion | Chris Hayes: I Want Your Attention. I Need Your Attention. Here is How I Mastered My Own.
The problem we face is existential and spiritual, not situational.
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
“Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; quite the contrary, it is a truly divine way of life, so long as one is not bored,” Kierkegaard wrote.
the #OpenAI plan to become a for-profit company reminds me of this old cartoon.
Financial Cartoon # 1952: There's nothing wrong with your personal finance software. You just don't have any money.
Financial Cartoon # 1952: There's nothing wrong with your personal finance software. You just don't have any money.
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December 27, 2024 at 5:02 PM
the #OpenAI plan to become a for-profit company reminds me of this old cartoon.
1/ in an interesting experiment, #sora created a white male-presenting character when prompted to generate an “academic giving a lecture.” what’s surprising is that it consistently did so on 16 consecutive trials. This will likely be “rectified” rapidly, but raises familiar (and hard) questions:
Sora has a bias problem
Sora seems to think all academics are men, and predominantly white men at that. And this is a problem.
futureofbeinghuman.com
December 27, 2024 at 2:38 AM
1/ in an interesting experiment, #sora created a white male-presenting character when prompted to generate an “academic giving a lecture.” what’s surprising is that it consistently did so on 16 consecutive trials. This will likely be “rectified” rapidly, but raises familiar (and hard) questions:
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I'm hiring a one-year post doc for research on AI, new tech and Future of Work
Ideal candidate has Special Sworn Status and Census RDC experience.
Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/158246
(NYU's term for "post doc" is "research scientist")
AEA JOE link:
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
Ideal candidate has Special Sworn Status and Census RDC experience.
Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/158246
(NYU's term for "post doc" is "research scientist")
AEA JOE link:
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2024 - January 31, 2025
www.aeaweb.org
December 4, 2024 at 8:25 PM
I'm hiring a one-year post doc for research on AI, new tech and Future of Work
Ideal candidate has Special Sworn Status and Census RDC experience.
Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/158246
(NYU's term for "post doc" is "research scientist")
AEA JOE link:
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
Ideal candidate has Special Sworn Status and Census RDC experience.
Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/158246
(NYU's term for "post doc" is "research scientist")
AEA JOE link:
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
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Triggered by @annagoeddeke.bsky.social's post: "The Deadweight Loss of Christmas" (a very cool paper) makes me wonder if government economic policy bodies should include experts from the other social sciences with an established track record of interdisciplinary thinking. Longer version below.
Arun Sundararajan on LinkedIn: Apart from feeling the usual good cheer, this Christmas Day I’ve been…
Apart from feeling the usual good cheer, this Christmas Day I’ve been thinking about one of my favorite papers in grad school, “The Deadweight Loss of…
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December 25, 2024 at 6:48 PM
Triggered by @annagoeddeke.bsky.social's post: "The Deadweight Loss of Christmas" (a very cool paper) makes me wonder if government economic policy bodies should include experts from the other social sciences with an established track record of interdisciplinary thinking. Longer version below.
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THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER is a Christmas movie. Change my mind.
'The Hunt for Red October' is a Christmas movie
Dive with me into a post that will submarine your 'Die Hard' theory
dandiamond.substack.com
December 25, 2024 at 12:05 AM
THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER is a Christmas movie. Change my mind.
18 months later, my June 2023 TEDx talk about the challenges that generative AI might pose to human intellectual autonomy is finally online. Would be delighted to hear what you think.
(And yes, I know, Google’s LLM is not called Bard any more:)
(And yes, I know, Google’s LLM is not called Bard any more:)
Can we own our intelligence in the age of AI? | Arun Sundararajan | TEDxGateway
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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December 20, 2024 at 8:52 PM
18 months later, my June 2023 TEDx talk about the challenges that generative AI might pose to human intellectual autonomy is finally online. Would be delighted to hear what you think.
(And yes, I know, Google’s LLM is not called Bard any more:)
(And yes, I know, Google’s LLM is not called Bard any more:)
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I wrote something about the migration from X to Bluesky. (I did not choose the title, and do not like it, but there you go.)
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/o...
Opinion | Bluesky Is Different From X. For Now.
Users are looking for a more curated experience on a platform that is not constantly trying to get them to interact with brands.
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2024 at 2:07 PM
I wrote something about the migration from X to Bluesky. (I did not choose the title, and do not like it, but there you go.)
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/o...
me holding a silicon wafer at ASML’s headquarters last week. i’d argue that their machines represent humanity’s most incredible engineering accomplishment to date.
November 24, 2024 at 10:12 PM
me holding a silicon wafer at ASML’s headquarters last week. i’d argue that their machines represent humanity’s most incredible engineering accomplishment to date.
so here’s an essay i wrote for the @aspeninstitute.bsky.social recently. our focus on copyright and training data is making us miss the more important IP challenge raised by #AI: making sure people have sufficient ownership over their human capital. www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/a...
Artificial Intelligence, Human Intellectual Autonomy and the Future of Work
In January 2015, Congress convened the inaugural meeting of its newly-formed Sharing Economy Caucus. Led by Representatives Jerome Nadler and Eric Swalwell, a group of lawmakers, tech CEOs, and a few ...
www.aspeninstitute.org
November 23, 2024 at 9:01 PM
so here’s an essay i wrote for the @aspeninstitute.bsky.social recently. our focus on copyright and training data is making us miss the more important IP challenge raised by #AI: making sure people have sufficient ownership over their human capital. www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/a...
writing research papers about seeding a new network effects product is so much more fun than actually doing it as a user..
November 23, 2024 at 8:55 PM
writing research papers about seeding a new network effects product is so much more fun than actually doing it as a user..