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“Right now, we are still using a 1953 zoning map to make zoning decisions, and it looks very much like the 1930s redlining map,” she said. “There are several levels of government responsible for what those maps look like.”

identifies this type of personal AI ‘assistant’ as the equivalent of a “market avatar” that steers conversation in the service of platforms, advertisers, businesses, and other third parties.

In an intention economy, an LLM could, at low cost, leverage a user’s cadence, politics, vocabulary, age, gender, preferences for sycophancy, and so on, in concert with brokered bids, to maximize the likelihood of achieving a given aim (e.g., to sell a film ticket).