The Case for AI as a Public Service
Prior reading: Competitive Dynamics, Policy, and the Race to the Bottom Who Built This Thing? There's a story the AI industry tells about itself. It goes something like: brilliant researchers at well-funded labs, armed with novel architectures and massive compute budgets, built the most capable information-processing systems in history. This story isn't wrong, exactly. It's just incomplete in a way that matters. The optimization environment that produced modern large language models is not a product of any lab. It is a civilization-scale effort. ...