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How AI Safety Is Getting Middle Powers Wrong
The case for pivoting from global governance to national interests
 • Anton Leicht
The Next Three Phases of AI Politics
Narrow windows worth preparing for
 • Anton Leicht
Anthropic Against Itself
The frontier AI lab can be a neutral authority, a policy advocate, or a political renegade. But it can no longer be all three.
 • Anton Leicht
The Devil You Know
A second look at the tech right
 • Anton Leicht
Don’t Build An AI Safety Movement
Once again, the field is summoning spirits it cannot control
 • Anton Leicht
A Moving Target
Why we might not be quite ready to comprehensively regulate AI, and why it matters.
 • Anton Leicht
The Real Sycophancy Problem
Transparent political opportunism can hurt frontier AI policy on both sides of the aisle.
 • 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.
 • Anton Leicht
Powerless Predictions
Sophisticated AI predictions fail to affect policy strategy. Changing that requires taking risks.
 • Anton Leicht
The Early Death of International AI Governance
Why the stars might never align on preventative international governance of AI, and what to do instead.
 • Anton Leicht
Against Wake-Up Calls
Big-ticket AI impacts might soon reshape AI policy. No one is prepared for that, but some people think they are.
 • Anton Leicht
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…
 • Anton Leicht
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