Norway Should Buy OpenAI - by Zachary Jones
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The Long Arc of History Bends Towards Social Democracy
AI capabilities are advancing at a faster rate than our institutional response. Soon, a transformative technology will crash into the capitalist political economy, presenting risks to humanity’s survival, autonomy, and democratic order. Especially concerning is the possibility that vast amounts of power and wealth are concentrated into the class that owns the AI systems, or uses those systems to override democratic control. Silicon Valley talks flippantly of a ‘Permanent Underclass’ - and they intend for you to belong to it. Upon the automation of most, and then plausibly all, jobs, we will…
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