Tech Policy Podcast

#369: AI and State Capacity

Episode Summary

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 (https://tinyurl.com/cttzfpcx) AI and Leviathan: Part II (https://tinyurl.com/cn6kc57x) AI and Leviathan: Part III (https://tinyurl.com/4frwprt9) Where is This All Heading? (https://tinyurl.com/nm3np3xj) AI: Dumb human to Einstein in a heartbeat (https://tinyurl.com/yuxcc8pf) Tech Policy Podcast #337: China and Domestic Surveillance (https://tinyurl.com/3eyeyn72) Tech Policy Podcast #327: The Collapse of Complex Societies (https://tinyurl.com/5esaaksf)

Episode Notes

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

Where is This All Heading?

AI: Dumb human to Einstein in a heartbeat

Tech Policy Podcast #337: China and Domestic Surveillance

Tech Policy Podcast #327: The Collapse of Complex Societies