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Henry Farrell

@himself
7 posts
2025-09-23
“few [SV CEOs would talk]. ....  not a single slot was available for the next three weeks, four weeks, six weeks ... One CEO notorious for logorrheic gabbing to reporters told me he was trying to “decompress” on politics. ”  But any time you want to talk AI or AI agents, please let me know!" he said.
2025-09-23 View on X
Wired

Tech leaders embracing Trump for short-term gain may ultimately imperil their companies and is counter to Silicon Valley's idealistic roots

it's that Silicon Valley's view of freedom was always aligned with libertarianism, not progressivism. Levy suggests that Trump's “values violently clashed with the egalitarian impu...

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2025-06-04
“If that all happens, then it should be an era of maximum human flourishing, where we travel to the stars and colonize the galaxy.  I think that will begin to happen in 2030.” www.wired.com/story/google...  Or not.
2025-06-04 View on X
Wired

Q&A with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on “a 50% chance” of AGI in the next five to 10 years, bad actors and technical risks, AI regulation, jobs, and more

Demis Hassabis says that systems as smart as humans are almost here, and we'll need to radically change how we think and behave.

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2025-05-17
thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai- materia... If this critique is roughly on the mark, it would suggest that QJE fell victim to a version of the Sokal Hoax problem - accepting at face value claims about a different field that econ editors/reviewers are not, actually, qualified to pronounce on.
2025-05-17 View on X
Wall Street Journal

MIT says it no longer stands behind a widely circulated research paper by its student that claimed an AI tool boosted discoveries in a materials science lab

The university says it has no confidence in a widely circulated paper by an economics graduate student

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2025-04-04
7. There are likely to be repercussions.  The past EU-US deal on data exchanges is likely to fall apart.  Last time, US tech companies could act indignant, condemning US surveillance state and saying that they hadn't known everything that was happening.  This time ... not so much.
2025-04-04 View on X
Foreign Affairs

By embracing Trump, Big Tech risks losing access to Europe, pushing Europe to build its own companies and platforms as Chinese companies try to expand to Europe

How Silicon Valley Got Entangled in Geopolitics—and Lost  —  Technology companies such as Alphabet, Meta, and OpenAI need to wake up to an unpleasant reality.

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9. And all this in the middle of a trade war, where the obvious next move is for the EU to target the kinds of services that big tech offers.  Much of this was avoidable.  Big tech didn't have to bend the knee to Trump.  It did, and it's going to get what's coming to it.  Finis.
2025-04-04 View on X
Foreign Affairs

By embracing Trump, Big Tech risks losing access to Europe, pushing Europe to build its own companies and platforms as Chinese companies try to expand to Europe

How Silicon Valley Got Entangled in Geopolitics—and Lost  —  Technology companies such as Alphabet, Meta, and OpenAI need to wake up to an unpleasant reality.

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4. And when tech CEOs are lined up at Trump's inauguration like so many mounted heads on a hunter's display wall, it adds geopolitical concerns to the existing worries about monopoly domination.  How could/will Trump use tech platforms as an instrument against an EU that he clearly detests?
2025-04-04 View on X
Foreign Affairs

By embracing Trump, Big Tech risks losing access to Europe, pushing Europe to build its own companies and platforms as Chinese companies try to expand to Europe

How Silicon Valley Got Entangled in Geopolitics—and Lost  —  Technology companies such as Alphabet, Meta, and OpenAI need to wake up to an unpleasant reality.

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8. Expect legal actions in EU that target big tech.  Expect judges and privacy regulators that are extremely unsympathetic.  And expect a public mood that identifies the current US as an adversary, and U.S. tech companies as willing auxiliaries in the war against Europe.  This won't end well for them.
2025-04-04 View on X
Foreign Affairs

By embracing Trump, Big Tech risks losing access to Europe, pushing Europe to build its own companies and platforms as Chinese companies try to expand to Europe

How Silicon Valley Got Entangled in Geopolitics—and Lost  —  Technology companies such as Alphabet, Meta, and OpenAI need to wake up to an unpleasant reality.

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