>> we have public alternatives at hand that already do a fantastic job studying AI impacts: @ainowinstitute.bsky.social top example. Those who study AI for the #public #interest should reinforce collab, as after markets, now even AI economics research heads toward a private oligopoly...

>> now, the battlefield where to prevail in the AI #LLM landscape is that of economics research aimed at justifying the value of the technology and its business model. So, competition moves to the think-tank space. The key problem with that is that these are #private research centres >>

Chapitre 2 - Pour l’Union européenne, il n’y a pas d’autonomie stratégique sans autonomie budgétaire

✍️ Olimpia Fontana & @svannuccini.bsky.social

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Merci beaucoup à tous les contributeurs (1/2): @pierrealayrac.bsky.social, @antonintd.bsky.social, @svannuccini.bsky.social‬, Olimpia Fontana, @maxkrahe.bsky.social‬, @paulmalliet.bsky.social, @alajanantti.bsky.social‬, @dzurstrassen.bsky.social

But... is it? The author of the piece is a well-known ideological conservative that has all the interest in casting the bleaker of shadows. The current President has daily meaningless rants maybe we focus on that. The real problem to me seems the Axel Springer right turn imposed to Politico

Interested? Here is the paper: www.csfederalismo.it/it/attivita/...

... So, @ec.europa.eu let's not fall for this, and let's build a #European #AI that is #plural and not necessarily based on the 'the-bigger-the-better' mantra!

... These projects and commitments to democracy, privacy etc are less credible than monopoly (the game) currency, given the ease with which these companies have turned to lipservicing a US govt that heads at breakneck speed towards becoming an autocratic regime...

... as fair guarantors of AI development to obtain contracts and shape the market. Evidence of that? In the span of a couple of days, OpenAI introduced its 'OpenAI for countries' with the aim to replicate the #Stargate project abroad and Microsoft responded with its 'European digital commitments'...

... the more US Big Tech will try to present themselves as neutral vehicles of infrastructural services, working for the public/global good. This is one of the two ways of weaponising industrial/tech policy I described in my last paper: hyperscalers dressing themselves...

There is loads of economic research on AI that does not need the AGI trope to say something interesting, eg on industrial and competition policy of AI. And it is also painful to see for all the scholars of technological change, especially when the industrial revolution is brought into the narrative!

Complexity is eliminated (as diversity is in proximate political views), economic incentives and forces are simplified. I am a bit shocked that this is now given airtime by @cepr.org seminar series on the #economics of #AI, which is a top institution promoting serious scientific work >>

This back-of-the-envelope way of thinking is very typical of longtermists, and to me seems too similar to the outcome of what average students in econ-101 would do to solve a take-home assignment and then abandon the course without studying the rest of key concepts. >>