#369: AI and State Capacity

Samuel Hammond (Foundation for American Innovation) discusses his essays on “AI and Leviathan.” Can government institutions cope with the coming technological disruption of AI?

Topics include:

- AI’s trajectory

- New Deal agencies in an AI world

- Public Choice Theory vs. the AI juggernaut

- Uber and micro-regime changes

- Government as a network of smart contracts

- Techno-totalitarianism vs. techno-feudalism

- AI Renaissance city states?

- Collapse as a feature, not a bug

- A techno-optimist’s revealed preferences

Links:

AI and Leviathan: Part I

AI and Leviathan: Part II

AI and Leviathan: Part III

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