oddly though "sicko fan" also makes perfect sense!

This diagram shows how elections work to create authority, and ultimately are where the buck stops in terms of accountability in a democracy:

At the end of the day the accountability for these actions is in the next election. Connecting the issues to affordability may be a way forward, e.g. data centers raising prices, AI and wages, etc.

Sadly it is pretty normal in academic publishing… and also why I mostly don’t write chapters for these kinds of books anymore. You can request it through inter library loan or get a chapter scanned by our library…

@jeremybmerrill.com you two should chat.

Do you have to have to be a professor or have a PhD to be a scientist?

Check out the datainnovation.org newsletter— it’s almost all beneficial cases they share every week, though I’ve never assessed it in terms of hype…

Well so we focused on the negative impacts there so didn’t actually analyze the benefit side. I would venture the general norm in straight reporting is to focus on concrete but speculation creeps in esp in opinion. Would be a good empirical question…

Interesting premise and project … in our recent paper only about 40% of news articles talked about risks of AI www.arxiv.org/pdf/2507.23718