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Datacenter Delusions
Simply building compute capacity does not make for a convincing national AI strategy.
Jul 16
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Anton Leicht
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Datacenter Delusions
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AI & Jobs: Two Phases Of Automation
AI labor impacts will look normal before they look existential. This creates a timing problem for policy development.
Jul 9
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Anton Leicht
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AI & Jobs: Two Phases Of Automation
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A Moving Target
Why we might not be quite ready to comprehensively regulate AI, and why it matters.
Jul 1
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Anton Leicht
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June 2025
The Awareness Gap
AI middle powers underestimate the pace of progress. Global volatility could follow.
Jun 17
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Anton Leicht
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The Awareness Gap
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AI & Jobs: Politics without Policy
Political support mounts - for a policy platform that does not yet exist.
Jun 5
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Anton Leicht
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AI & Jobs: Politics without Policy
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May 2025
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.
May 27
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Anton Leicht
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Three Fault Lines in Conservative AI Policy
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The Real Sycophancy Problem
Transparent political opportunism can hurt frontier AI policy on both sides of the aisle.
May 20
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Anton Leicht
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The Real Sycophancy Problem
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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.
May 5
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Anton Leicht
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April 2025
Powerless Predictions
Sophisticated AI predictions fail to affect policy strategy. Changing that requires taking risks.
Apr 24
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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.
Apr 7
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Anton Leicht
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March 2025
The Early Death of International AI Governance
Why the stars might never align on preventative international governance of AI, and what to do instead.
Mar 31
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Anton Leicht
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Three Notes on Dean Ball's 'Private AI Governance'
In this shorter piece, I discuss a recent proposal's limitations regarding transformative AI systems, securitised environments, and the role of…
Mar 21
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Anton Leicht
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