Threading the Needle

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The Awareness Gap
AI middle powers underestimate the pace of progress. Global volatility could follow.
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Anton Leicht
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AI & Jobs: Politics without Policy
Political support mounts - for a policy platform that does not yet exist.
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Three Fault Lines in Conservative AI Policy
The Right must find out what 'winning an AI race' means, how much jobs matter, and who to trust.
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Anton Leicht
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The Real Sycophancy Problem
Transparent political opportunism can hurt frontier AI policy on both sides of the aisle.
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Anton Leicht
The New AI Policy Frontier
Beyond the shortcomings of centralised control and alignment, a new school of thought on AI governance emerges. It still faces tricky politics.
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Anton Leicht
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Powerless Predictions
Sophisticated AI predictions fail to affect policy strategy. Changing that requires taking risks.
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Anton Leicht
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Homeostatic AI Progress
Very fast AI progress faces a self-regulating dynamic: Greater speed leads to more organizational strains, compute trade-offs and societal backlash.
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Anton Leicht
Threading the Needle
Threading the Needle
A publication about charting a course through the treacherous politics of rapid AI progress.
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