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Politics & AI Policy

The Devil You Know
A second look at the tech right
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Anton Leicht
A Preemption Deal Worth Making
Making the best of borrowed time
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Anton Leicht
Making American AI Export Promotion Work
How to sell the American stack to an uninformed world
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Anton Leicht
AI & Jobs: Enter Populism?
Four political attractors that could draw the battle lines in the AI-jobs debate.
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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.
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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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Anton Leicht
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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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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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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
The Most Dangerous Time in AI Policy
If the deployment of human-level AI systems disrupts our political institutions, we won't be prepared for further progress.
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AI Policy & Labor Politics
AI agents are coming to the labor market. That fact could reshape AI politics, raises a dilemma for AI safety advocates and threatens the tech right…
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Anton Leicht
The AI Takeoff Political Economy
If AI policy does not get ahead of its treacherous politics, this revolution will eat its children.
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