How AI Becomes a Political Crisis

ChinaTalk by Jordan Schneider

Aug 24, 202668:35Society & Culture

The political economy of AI — things are getting weird, it seems. We have models on the loose, open weights being dropped from the heavenly temple, and data center protests fanning out across the land. There’s a lot of s...

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