Tyler Cowen’s Views on AI

MarginalRevolution, the long-running blog of Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok, recently published their archive so that AI agents can more easily access their content. As an example of an AI analysis, Alex published a post on how they Changed Their Views on AI and Where They Disagree, but it’s very brief.As is my habit when economics professors from George Mason university publish non-comprehensive AI analyses, I decided to do a more in-depth analysis. I asked ChatGPT for Work to investigate Tyler’s views over time (and how they held up) for 6 questions:How rapid will AI progress and how capable will it become?How dangerous could AI be, should we concerned about catastrophic harm from AI?How harmful could AI be, should we concerned about its effect on youths, or on education, etc.Would it be a good idea to do strong regulation of AI or slow down its development?Would people and politicians support regulating AI? Is it practical to push for that?What to think of AI and China? Is there any…