AI and Politics
AI and Politics is a newsletter exploring how artificial intelligence is reshaping democracy, governance, and political behavior. It provides clear-eyed analysis of AI's impact on jobs, elections, civic engagement, and democracy, without hype or doom.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 138 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 14 hours ago |
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GLP-1s Will Move GDP More Than LLMs in the Next Decade
I want to stake a position that I believe is correct and that almost nobody in the AI discourse is making. Conditional on two reasonable assumptions, GLP-1 medications will have a larger positive effect on US GDP over the next decade than l...
Corporate AI White Papers Are Not Peer-Reviewed Science
Cal Newport, the Georgetown computer science professor and author of Deep Work, published a piece in the New York Times arguing that AI companies have adopted a strategy of solemnly describing the harms their products will cause while conti...
The Bitter Lesson Has a Condition
Richard Sutton’s 2019 essay “The Bitter Lesson” has become foundational dogma in AI research. The argument is that general methods leveraging computation consistently outperform methods built around human-designed knowledge and domain-speci...
AI Alignment Is a Principal Agent Problem
The AI alignment discourse treats misalignment as a fundamentally new problem requiring entirely new theoretical frameworks. Researchers debate specification gaming, reward hacking, deceptive alignment, and mesa-optimization as if these wer...
The Quiet Recession of Misalignment Discourse
Two years ago, the dominant question in AI public discourse was whether artificial intelligence would kill everyone. Sam Altman testified before Congress about existential risk. Anthropic published reports about catastrophic outcomes. AI sa...
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