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PERHAPS SILICON VALLEY'S BRIGHTEST have miscalculated. I suspect those leading and investing in the AI labs have underestimated—vastly underestimated—the chance that progress in machine intelligence can be slowed, damaged, or outright strangled by political forces outside the industry’s control.

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LAST MONTH American Affairs published my review of Alexander Karp’s The Technological Republic. While I had plenty critical to say about Karp’s book, the meat of my essay was a historical survey of the ascendant  “Eastern Establishment” of the Gilded Age. This class of men dominated American industry and exerted outsized influence in American politics in the...

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