Finance & economics | Ascension, for someOptimists hope the technology will be a great equaliser. Instead, it looks likely to widen social divides Feb 13th 2025|Washington, DCAt a summit in Paris on February 10th and 11th, tech bosses vied to issue the most grandiose claim about artificial intelligence. “AI will be the most profound shift of our lifetimes,” is how Sundar Pichai, Alphabet’s boss, put it. Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, said that it would lead to the “largest change to...