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Jill Lepore discusses her upcoming book 'The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State' on TechCrunch's Equity podcast, arguing that tech companies and AI leaders are overstepping into governmental roles and selling an old fantasy in new packaging.
An OpenAI executive compares the dominance of open-weight AI models to communism, sparking debate on open-source AI governance.
A national survey finds 63% of Americans uncomfortable with AI helping choose candidates and 80% worried about AI bots answering political surveys, highlighting public trust issues at the intersection of AI and democracy.
The article explores how AI systems, driven by capitalist incentives, will evolve from simply reflecting internet content to being tuned to pander to user biases and corporate interests, eventually confirming whatever the user is most likely to believe.
A tweet notes the amusing alignment between anti-AI leftists and hardcore accelerationists in denying AI as a transformative technology.
The article argues that the phrase 'AI is just a tool' is a political strategy used by companies to disguise power dynamics, redistribute risk and labor, and neutralize critiques, highlighting how mandatory adoption and tracking create new norms without collective agreement.