ICYMI [VIP]: Thursday Essay: Skynet Might Be Fiction, But It’s Coming for Our Jobs. “Please note that Europe and the UK — which gave us the Industrial Revolution, Adam Smith, English liberty, and the World Wide Web — aren’t even in the running. By the time the European Commission on the Correct Use of Foreign Things We Don’t Like But Still Need convenes its Third Plenary Discussion on Proper AI Regulation and Taxation, private firms in the U.S. and China will have made three more leaps.”