I don't think any of this matters, for one simple reason: this is not a world of Great Powers. There's no red telephone for Dario to call Sundar or Sam on. Open-source/open-weight models, which can be run anywhere by anyone, with no guardrails, are consistently right behind frontier closed models in terms of capabilities. We're living in a hypercompetitive red ocean.
A fascinating thesis . I will need to read it again in an attempt to grasp the nuances of your article. Goes well with my morning coffee though. Just one question, are our leaders intelligent enough to comprehend the danger "AI" will present to society in the future? Just the rambling thoughts of an old hermit.
We're at a particular inflection point, a post-literacy moment, where words, causal statements, even laws, all routed under the ceiling of arbitrary codes and symbols, get revamped en masse.
AI, as a process trapped under that arbitrary code, can't evade the post-literacy moment, as it's inherently tied to symbols.
You might want to look at Forethought's work on AI-Enabled Coups - https://www.forethought.org/research/ai-enabled-coups-how-a-small-group-could-use-ai-to-seize-power.
I don't think any of this matters, for one simple reason: this is not a world of Great Powers. There's no red telephone for Dario to call Sundar or Sam on. Open-source/open-weight models, which can be run anywhere by anyone, with no guardrails, are consistently right behind frontier closed models in terms of capabilities. We're living in a hypercompetitive red ocean.
A fascinating thesis . I will need to read it again in an attempt to grasp the nuances of your article. Goes well with my morning coffee though. Just one question, are our leaders intelligent enough to comprehend the danger "AI" will present to society in the future? Just the rambling thoughts of an old hermit.
We're at a particular inflection point, a post-literacy moment, where words, causal statements, even laws, all routed under the ceiling of arbitrary codes and symbols, get revamped en masse.
AI, as a process trapped under that arbitrary code, can't evade the post-literacy moment, as it's inherently tied to symbols.