#369: AI and State Capacity
Mar 13, 2024•51 min•Ep. 369
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Episode description
Samuel Hammond (Foundation for American Innovation) discusses his essays on “AI and Leviathan.” Can government institutions cope with the coming technological disruption of AI?
Topics include:
- AI’s trajectory
- New Deal agencies in an AI world
- Public Choice Theory vs. the AI juggernaut
- Uber and micro-regime changes
- Government as a network of smart contracts
- Techno-totalitarianism vs. techno-feudalism
- AI Renaissance city states?
- Collapse as a feature, not a bug
- A techno-optimist’s revealed preferences
Links:
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