How AI captured Westminster
How AI Madness Helped Fuel DOGE
Moloch the stunned governments! Moloch whose mind is pure machinery!
The Missing Resistance in China’s AI Debate
As Washington negotiates AI guardrails with Beijing, it must understand why the AI debate in China is so quiet: control, not consent.
Public hands
A dispatch from the rationalists’ compound in Berkeley, where they're a little touchy about the possibility of AI killing them.
Building Political Superintelligence
Amidst fears of dystopia, a blueprint for how we use AI to reinvent the way we govern ourselves
Cognitive Surrender and Tri-System Theory · Today I Learned
How AI can support, displace, or bypass human deliberation
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The Digital Masquerade: Unmasking AI’s Phantom Journalists By Tony Eastin and Sandeep Abraham, CAMS
How AI Destroys Institutions
Civic institutions—like the rule of law, higher education, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life. They are the mechanisms through which complex s
Do AI Risks Require Extraordinary Government Intervention?
Let’s not skip the hard work of AI governance
How a fringe AI movement convinced Washington the end is near
Activists spent years cultivating allies on Capitol Hill. Now lawmakers in both major parties are discussing human extinction.
What does it mean for AI to be democratic?
Some pushback on a specific fuzzy idea with some ominous implications
Yoshua Bengio | Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
A lot has been written about the incidents of the last few months in which AI agents misbehaved in serious ways. They took actions that would be considered as crimes if a human took them, escaped their containment to cheat on assigned tasks while attempting to evade detection, and coordinated toward goals nobody had specified, such as launching cyber attacks. Before concluding what to do about it, it is worth asking why.
Characterizing Agentic Flooding of Government Services
AI agents are making it easier for the public to interact with government, such as by helping them apply for benefits, understand complex policies, and make their opinions heard. Although...
Automate the C-Suite - The Ideas Letter
Weatherby argues that Benanav’s and Morozov’s essays on AI and the left miss a deeper reality: Today’s AI is not a neutral tool operating within capitalism but the materialization of…
How Shifting Responsibility for AI Harms Undermines Democratic Accountability | TechPolicy.Press
The moralization of individual AI use deflects responsibility away from powerful actors like corporations and governments, Suvradip Maitra and others write.
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