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He was/is a right wing policy wonk, putting out oligarch misinformation from oligarch think tanks:

> His policy scholarship has been published by the Mercatus Center, the Foundation for American Innovation, the Hoover Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Federation of American Scientists, the Manhattan Institute, and American Compass.

Then Trump admin AI guy and OpenAI "Head of Strategic Futures".

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In other words, hiring him was an explicit play for more entanglement between regime and industry. He says as much in his point 5.

They know they can't win on the fundamentals.

Regulatory capture is the only play left.

Keep in mind LLMs are also perfect propaganda machines. They will determine the information that will get surfaced by billions of people, their framing will influence how they think.

I have no doubt the Trumpists are aware as well and will extract their price.

Scary days ahead.

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