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The Download: your stake in OpenAI, and the Treasury’s AI warning

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Your family’s $300 stake in OpenAI Sam Altman’s proposal that Americans should share in the wealth created by AI is back in the spotlight, with reports that he is discussing giving…

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Why we stopped making land

From Zigmund Forrest and Maxwell Tabarrok in Works in Progress: In total, around eight percent of the land in America’s major coastal cities was underwater in the 1890s and has since been reclaimed. This includes the land under several major airports, like Newark, Logan, and SFO, as well as neighborhoods like the Financial District in […] The post Why we stopped making land appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesRent Control: The Ceiling TrapWhat should I ask Liaquat Ahamed?How...

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Can AI models consent to their own constitutions?

From Nick Caputo: NEW paper from me on SSRN: Can Claude consent to its own Constitution? AI constitutions (like Claude’s Constitution and the OpenAI Model Spec) are real constitutions, and we need to take how they govern us – and the AIs they create – seriously. In this paper, I apply constitutional theory’s oldest paradox […] The post Can AI models consent to their own constitutions? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesThe Troubled History of Government Equity in Technology...

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