Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Wall Street is Coming for Your Burger
They came for your department stores, your newspapers, your hospitals. Now—hold onto your sesame seed bun—they’re coming for your burger. The drive for fatter profits means higher prices, lower quality, tougher conditions for workers, and sometimes the blowup of the business itself.
Remembering Perry Mehrling
The U.S. battery maker that could, and the U.S. auto company that wouldn’t
General Motors once had the technology, talent, and partnership to lead the electric-vehicle revolution. Instead, it abandoned the EV1 and its battery venture while pouring billions into stock buybacks, helping turn an early American lead into decades of technological dependence.
When the Machine Acquires a Self: Conscience, Agency, and the Governance Frontier of Artificial Intelligence
What changes when the machine begins to experience itself as a self? An AI that values its own survival would pose a challenge far beyond alignment, forcing us to rethink what it means to govern an intelligence with interests of its own.