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Artifice in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
To understand the tech mindset is to see that the ultimate goal is domination. Silicon Valley elites apply a different standard to themselves because, quite simply, they believe that they deserve a different set of rules and expectations.
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The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Why Everything Is More Expensive
David and writing fellow Emma Janssen discuss their contributions to the Prospect’s weeklong series on affordability.
Posted inEconomic Policy
How the AI Bubble Might Play Out
Investment in new technology always needs startup financing, and if AI is truly God in the machine, wide adoption will pay off over time. But that isn’t materializing, at least not yet.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Prices in the Machine
AI’s real contribution to humanity could be maximizing corporate profit by preying on personal data to raise prices. In fact, it’s already happening.
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The Prospect Weekly Roundup: ACA Sticker Shock and AI Jitters
David and staff writer Whitney Curry Wimbish discuss skyrocketing health insurance costs and the sketchy deals at the heart of the data center boom.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Big Tech Poised to Win Immunity Shield From State AI Regulation
The Trump administration is readying an executive order preempting constraints on AI. It could become a much more wide-ranging deregulatory tool.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The AI Bubble Is Bigger Than You Think
It’s not just OpenAI that looks overhyped. There’s a whole mountain of sketchy financial engineering underneath.
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OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout
For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to: Uncle Sam.
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‘Progressive’ Tech Group Asks Trump to Block AI Copyright Cases
The Chamber of Progress’s campaign to promote fair use, which they have created a campaign around called “Generate and Create,” comes as at least three of the nonprofit organization’s past or current backers are being sued over copyright claims.
