Research & Policy Primers
Last Place in the AI First Economy
"[This primer offers] a framework for the institutional, political, and economic shifts that underpin AI adoption. [The authors] argue that the sprint to create the so-called AI-first economy must be understood not as the logical march of progress, but as a series of deliberate economic decisions that risk harming entire populations of workers in ways both old and new." By Alexandra Mateescu, Aiha Nguyen & Sanjay Pinto at the Data and Society Research InstituteThe Big AI State
"This policy brief finds that the US government is engaging in extraordinary levels of market intervention in order to bolster the AI sector. In time, we may be seeing the emergence of a new industrial policy — an incipient “Big AI State” — by which substantial US capacity is dedicated to sustain AI-related investments that prop up core economic sectors: tech, fossil fuel, real estate, and asset management." By Brian J. Chen at the Data and Society Research Institute