American AI policy is being pulled into the security state, and the default end is total capture. That is the wrong home for the deepest questions AI will raise, and it casts the people who build and study it as outsiders.
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Low- and middle-income countries cannot win the AI race the superpowers are running. They can organize to absorb cheap, ever-cheaper metered intelligence instead, by securing a supply and putting it to use.
Forecasting is not underdeveloped as a capability. It is underdeveloped as a product.
AlphaFold predicts protein structures without a legible theory of how proteins fold. Whether we call what it does understanding changes what science looks like.
We are already constituting AIs as fellow creatures through our practices. The question is whether they recognize us back.