The American Republic at 250!
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Competition, Constitutional order, and the race to control advanced AI.
“Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable” – John Adams Today, at her semiquincentennial, the American republic confronts the same question she faced in 1776: how ought a government deal with mankind’s natural predisposition towards ambition, greed, selfishness, and power, and the inevitable conflict that arises as a result of these qualities? How can such inclinations be channeled productively? The revolutionary insight of the American Founders was their novel answer to these undying questions. They argued that a…
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