On AI policy : Lately, lots of powerful people have been balking about the idea of AI safety. At the woefully misnomered AI Action Summit in Paris, Vice President JD Vance dismissed the idea of AI safety and suggested that as long as America beat everyone else in creating superintelligence, the rest would all take care of itself.

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What if the questions were instead: What kinds of labor markets are being designed around AI? What is shaping the choices about adoption? Who has bargaining power in those decisions? How will the value created by as yet unfounded promises of productivity growth be distributed? Who has power and how is it wielded to promote certain interests and... See more