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How do you think about the potential externalities of AI, such as unemployment?

From Barron's Apr. 7, 2026

But those events tend to be intrinsic to business rather than externalities such as White House maneuvers or geopolitics.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 6, 2026

In traditional economics-speak, hidden costs are known as externalities – spillover effects from production that are caused by one party but paid for by another.

From Salon Feb. 28, 2024

“The negative externalities of generative AI will be a critical topic for debate in 2024,” Havemeyer said.

From Seattle Times Feb. 16, 2024

Such trivialities and externalities invested her with glamour.

From Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch Two Stories of Jewish Life by Frank, Ulrich