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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
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…
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Anton Leicht
Do You Need A Wake-Up Call?
Big-ticket AI impacts might soon reshape AI policy. No one is prepared for that, but some people think they are.
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The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of AI Securitisation
The rapid shift of AI into the domain of national security is frequently portrayed as a foregone conclusion. It’s not, and we shouldn’t treat it like…
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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
A Roadmap For AI Middle Powers
First thoughts on leveraging bottlenecks for abundant intelligence
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Anton Leicht
The Politics of Inference Scaling
This is an archived post. It's not optimised for Substack.
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AI Safety Politics after the SB-1047 Veto
This is an archived post. It's not optimised for Substack.
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Three Notes on ‘Situational Awareness’
This is an archived post. It's not optimised for Substack.
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