be effective
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The position of AI leaders like Amodei is that allowing a time lag in the case of artificial intelligence might leave it too late for regulation to be effective.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
“To be effective in the Senate, you need knowledge, experience, seniority and relationships,” she said Tuesday in her first debate against Jackson, the former Maine Senate president.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
It returns and returns, more than three-dozen times, like an incantation—repetition being, for O’Neill, a dramatic device that can be effective if sometimes trying.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Additional research would be needed to determine whether similar effects occur in people, what doses might be effective, and whether long-term supplementation is safe.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Savery’s engine, and Papin’s second engine, needed to build up a high pressure in order to be effective but, in practice, boilers and cylinders could not be made that withstood such pressure.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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