The massive rents to be wrung out of the attention economy have acted as a black hole, pulling nearly every tech startup or utopian innovator into the orbit of surveillance capitalism, addictive algorithms, and a culture of increasingly unproductive device dependence. Wherever AI goes over the longer term, in the near term it has already begun running into the same ruts. Continue reading Beyond Safetyism: A Modest Proposal for Conservative AI Regulation on American Affairs Journal.
