Metacrisis and AI governance
Metacrisis and AI governance Jonah Wilberg, September 2025
Meta is trying to win the AI race with money — but not everyone can be bought
“You’re expected to give pretty much your whole self to Meta AI.”
Large AI models are cultural and social technologies – Henry Farrell
Debates about artificial intelligence (AI) tend to revolve around whether large models are intelligent, autonomous agents. Some AI researchers and commentators speculate that we are on the cusp of creating agents with artificial general intelligence (AGI), a prospect anticipated with both elation and anxiety. There have also been extensive conversations about cultural and social consequences of large models, orbiting around two foci: immediate effects of these systems as they are currently used, and hypothetical futures when these systems turn into AGI agents perhaps even superintelligent AGI agents.
AI FOR EPISTEMICS & COORDINATION
Civilization and technology have radically improved the human condition. Nonetheless, the world sometimes goes in directions which essentially nobody would prefer — e.g., nuclear arms races, unexpected financial crashes, predatory marketing, or ubiquitous political misinformation.
Walter Mitty Effects in AI Incident Analyses
Metanarrative pathologies in the OpenAI-HF incident
Agentic AI gets lost
On the failure of AI to develop world models
AI is Maybe Sometimes Better than Nothing
Reporting on that World Bank Nigeria paper
Karpathy says developers have 'AI Psychosis.' Everyone else is next.
Anthropic’s Mythos, Gen Z’s backlash, and Meta’s token binge all point to the same shift: developers are feeling AI first, but not for long.
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making — Ludicity
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How the Anthropic saga could threaten American AI dominance
The shutdown of top AI models reverberates abroad.
‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess
Executives and employees alike are struggling with Meta’s chaotic AI strategy, according to sources and internal discussions reviewed by WIRED.
interesting to see them citing the meta-crisis and failure to address it as a prime reason for moving on - "our wisdom must grow in equal measure to our capacity to affect the world, lest we face the consequences" raising meta-crisis awareness among AI researchers is a great way to reduce x-risk 👍 >
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another one for the scrapbook @gracekind.net
One reason getting international alignment on AI is hard is because countries assume, or are hoping for, different futures. We map what we think are the salient perspectives and how that predicts countries positions. foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/11/governance-artific…
Governments Can’t Agree on What AI Actually Is
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