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CDE’s Cal Newport guest essay on the rhetoric around AI featured in the NYT

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In a guest essay for The New York Times titled “How Scared Should We Be of AI Right Now?”, best-selling author, Georgetown computer science professor, and CDE founding faculty member Cal Newport examines the pessimistic and even fearful rhetoric around AI coming from business and tech leaders.

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