New Matrix, Meet the Old Matrix

At a fundamental level, artificial intelligence leaders, evangelists and their allies want you to believe that this novel technology demands a novel political approach.

Calls for self-regulation from the chief executives of Anthropic, OpenAI and other such companies rest on the idea that the A.I. labs and their funders are the only people equipped to handle and regulate this potentially dangerous technology. This is why, for example, Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, recently called for antitrust waivers to allow “industrywide........

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