About this episode

The episode explores OpenAI's report on industrial policy in the context of superintelligence and critiques its proposals.

We do a deep dive into OpenAI’s new report “Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First” and pick apart their extensive set of proposals for building an “Open Economy” and "Resilient Society” all against the backdrop of surviving the “transition toward superintelligence”. There are some moments of insidiously clever thinking, which stand out against a laundry list of boring ideas that repackage existing things as exciting innovations. ••• OpenAI | Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/561e7512-253e-424b-9734-ef4098440601/Industrial%20Policy%20for%20the%20Intelligence%20Age.pdf Standing Plugs: ••• Order Jathan’s book: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite ••• Subscribe to Ed’s substack: https://substack.com/@thetechbubble ••• Subscribe to TMK on patreon for premium episodes: https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (bsky.app/profile/jathansadowski.com) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.x.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (bsky.app/profile/jebr.bsky.social)

People in this episode

Hosts: Jathan Sadowski, Edward Ongweso Jr.

Topics covered

• industrial policy
• superintelligence
• Open Economy
• Resilient Society
• AI proposals
• technology innovation

Keywords

• OpenAI
• industrial policy
• superintelligence
• AI
• technology
• innovation
• economic resilience

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OpenAI

Books & works: Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First

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