> According to the big AI companies, this kind of ambitious and unconditional > > government support is just what’s needed to achieve their aim of limitless AI > > infrastructure expansion—which they assert will be necessary to reach the holy grail > > of artificial general intelligence, and to do so before China does. Under this arms-race > > logic, any restraint on corporate power is recast as an impediment to national security > > interests and plainly unpatriotic—like blocking the Apollo program or the > > Manhattan Project (both of which, AI boosters insist, are worthy historical analogies). > > > But if there’s one thing we should have learned from past eras of technological > > transformation, it’s that the promotion of national monopolies does not necessarily > > lead to national competitiveness. Nor does it lead, seamlessly, to sustainable jobs, > > enduring employment, wage growth, and innovation. While it can lead to great wealth > > for some, it rarely guarantees the kind of mass national renewal that the tech elite and > > their friends in government promise.
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