basic principle
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This is a basic principle: If AI lowers the cost of routine work, it raises the value of everything else.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
When Anthropic and Open AI sell their shares the same basic principle will apply: a lot of money is being invested with no guarantee of future profits to match.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
It is a basic principle of constitutional law that a government cannot bind its future self.
From Slate • May 26, 2026
Evolutionary biology explains this contrast through a basic principle: energy is limited, and species must divide it between reproduction and maintaining their bodies.
From Science Daily • Jan. 16, 2026
He would thus have been familiar with the basic principle that objects appear smaller as they recede into the distance, a principle analysed by Euclid, and familiar in the Middle Ages.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
