{"id":155158,"date":"2026-07-25T21:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T21:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155158"},"modified":"2026-07-25T21:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T21:30:08","slug":"the-west-is-debating-ais-future-with-half-the-world-absent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155158","title":{"rendered":"The West is debating AI\u2019s future with half the world absent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostOn July 13, more than 200 leading economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates, signed an open letter organised by the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. Its warning was stark: artificial intelligence may drive an economic transformation \u201clarger than the Industrial Revolution\u201d compressed into a fraction of the time, and that we \u201cmust act now\u201d to build the institutions to steer it.<br \/>\nWe agree with every word. Then we scanned the signatory list. Four in five signatories come from the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/world-opinion\/article\/3361362\/west-debating-ais-future-half-world-absent?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostOn July 13, more than 200 leading economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates, signed an open letter organised by the Stanford Digital&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155158"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}