In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...
The Great AI Divide: Navigating U.S. and Chinese dominance
At a Rest of World event during New York Tech Week, we explored the challenges and possible solutions to the dominance of American and Chinese AI companies.
The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025
An inside view of the AI revolution, from the people an…
The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025
An inside view of the AI revolution, from the people and companies making it happen.
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.
OpenAI Calls for New Industrial Policy as AI Reshapes Economy and Governance
OpenAI’s policy paper argues that governments must adopt a new industrial policy to manage AI’s economic disruption.
Import AI 452: Scaling laws for cyberwar; rising tides of AI automation; and a puzzle over gDP forecasting
How much could AI revolutionize the economy?
AI’s Imperial Agenda
“Empire of AI” author Karen Hao on how Silicon Valley’s young AI companies parallel colonial empires of old.
Welcome to a Multidimensional Economic Disaster
The AI boom wasn’t built for the polycrisis.
Notes from inside China's AI labs
Lessons from my trip to talk to most of the leading AI labs in China.
Separating AI’s Technological Problems From its Capitalism Problems
Nathan E. Sanders and Bruce Schneier say integrating a technology as disruptive as AI responsibly requires deep structural reforms.
If AI is normal technology, history is not reassuring. — LessWrong
There’s a truism that technology is good - even if it creates winners and losers, it improves the world. Toby Ord argues that the conclusions about t…
Amazon Created The Socialist Dream
March 2026 Global Dialogues Survey | Windfall Trust
Here’s what the world had to say about the AI economy
The future of AI is already written
How physical and economic constraints determine which technologies get built, and why full AI automation is inevitable.
The fall of the theorem economy
How AI could destroy mathematics and barely touch it
The fall of the theorem economy
How AI could destroy mathematics and barely touch it