Andy Hall at Free Systems:
Right now is a weird time to be a political economist. AI is straining our already brittle political institutions. We might lurch into a dystopia in which we live in the grips of a techno-leviathan, forced by our employers to train our own AI replacements, then kicked to the curb in a society organized to the benefit of a tiny number of people who control the machinery that controls the world.
It’s also an electric time to be a political economist. With each new paper my lab puts out, and with each new experimental prototype in self governance we build using tools we couldn’t imagine having even a year ago, I’m starting to believe that AI presents an extraordinary opportunity to rebuild our society so we can keep slouching down the narrow corridor towards utopia.
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