Comment by Joseph Stiglitz

Nobel laureate economist based at Columbia University
The tech bros, who are obviously advocates of this, are at the same time pushing for smaller government, which will undermine the ability of the government to do exactly what is needed in order to make a successful transition. [...] If the tech oligarchs continue in their mindset overall of downscaling government, that will impair the ability of government to facilitate the AI transition.
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AI Verified Verified via web search. Fortune URL returned 403, but search snippets reproduce both passages verbatim: "The tech bros... pushing for smaller government, which will undermine the ability of the government to do exactly what is needed in order to make a successful transition" and "If the tech oligarchs continue in their mindset overall of downscaling government, that will impair the ability of government to facilitate the AI transition." Vote 'for' "AGI could make governments subordinate to the companies that develop it" aligns with Stiglitz's warning about tech oligarchy weakening government. Year 2026 confirmed. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 21d ago
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