Forgot to do this yesterday!

Billionaire solipsism, dictator solipsism, AI, and the fascist paradigm

• Writing for Columbia’s Knight First Amendment Institute, political scientist Henry Farrell and statistician Cosma Rohilla Shalizi have produced the definitive account of how AI psychosis has infected our political classes:
• https://knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-as-social-technology
• Farrell and Shalizi use this political AI psychosis to explain DOGE, framing DOGE as a project where politicians and their loyal vassals cut a deep wound in the administrative state on the basis that general AI was about to emerge. With godlike AI around the corner, these bureaucrats – who insist on having opinions based on long experience and ethical sensibilities – could be replaced with sycophantic chatbots who’d turn the will of the unitary executive into policy without any filtration through unreliable, squishy humans.

Tasks

• UL password reset – done, hopefully.
• Book
  • Some back and forth with Karen
  • Complete book information form (We have not received the author bio and photo which will accompany the book)
  • Provide short alt text descriptions for all figures in their book
• Library run
• Bills – done
• 10:30 Fidelity

SBIRs

• Tech summit prep
• Timesheet – done