Monday, April 7, 2025

MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy

James Rickards
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“Essential reading” – Forbes

From the New York Times bestselling author of The New Great Depression and Currency Wars, a telling prediction for how AI will endanger global economic markets and security


In November 2022, OpenAI released GPT-4 in a chatbot form to the public. In just two months, it claimed 100 million users—the fastest app to ever reach this benchmark. Since then, AI has become an all-consuming topic, popping up on the news, in ads, on your messenger apps, and in conversations with friends and family. But as AI becomes ubiquitous and grows at an ever-increasing pace, what does it mean for the financial markets?

In MoneyGPT, Wall Street veteran and former advisor to the Department of Defense James Rickards paints a comprehensive picture of the danger AI poses to the global financial order, and the insidious ways in which AI will threaten national security. Rickards shows how, while AI is touted to increase efficiency and lower costs, its global implementation in the financial world will actually cause chaos, as selling begets selling and bank runs happen at lightning speed. AI further benefits malicious actors, Rickards argues, because without human empathy or instinct to intervene, threats like total nuclear war that once felt extreme are now more likely. And throughout all this, we must remain vigilant on the question of whose values will be promoted in the age of AI. As Rickards predicts, these systems will fail when we rely on them the most.

MoneyGPT shows that the danger is not that AI will malfunction, but that it will function exactly as intended. The peril is not in the algorithms, but in ourselves. And it’s up to us to intervene with old-fashioned human logic and common sense before it’s too late.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

弱勢者視角下的香港未來

羅金義
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香港自20世紀中後期以後,憑着優越的地理位置和開放的政策,逐步發展成為東方之珠、大都會、國際金融中心。這些美譽突顯了香港的繁華,成為了無數人的向往。然而,在這座燦爛輝煌的城市背後,也有着晦暗、貧困的一面,存在着不少弱勢社群。

香港有哪些「弱勢社群」?少數族裔、殘障人士、低收入貧窮戶、病弱長者、新移民家庭;又或是同性戀者、跨性別人士,以至相對於成年人的青少年。他們面對生活上各種各樣的困難及有形無形的歧視、面對融入社會的挑戰、面對惡劣的生活環境,以至氣候變化也給他們帶來額外的威脅。當我們說香港正面對種種的困境及挑戰,也就是生活在這裏的人的困境及挑戰;而這種困境,我們必須要從社會上弱勢社群的視覺去解讀,方可窺見問題的根本。

「享天下之利者,任天下之患」。香港在璀璨的背後,隱藏着許多社會問題。本書輯錄了十二篇文章,涉及貧弱、青年、少數族裔、社區發展等不同議題,逐一從弱勢社群視角分析詳述。到底弱勢者正面臨什麼困境,社會又該如何幫助他們,社會政策範式應予何種轉移?作為香港的一分子,作者期望讀者大眾都能關注正視這些議題。

(摘錄自 cityu.edu.hk/upress)