Realizing the Potential of AI Localism by Stefaan G. Verhulst & Mona Sloane

But even by the usual standards, artificial intelligence has had a turbulent run. Is AI a society-renewing hero or a jobs-destroying villain? As always, the truth is not so categorical. At more than 1,000 pages, Thomas Piketty's doorstop sequel to his previous opus, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, does not disappoint. But whether it will fundamentally change the global debate about inequality is an open question. As a general-purpose technology, AI will be what we make of it, with its ultimate impact determined by the governance frameworks we build.