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Bounding Power: The ASI control problem, public safety, and constitutionalism
- brandonlc 3y agoI really loved this article because it shows that ASI, and the control problem associated with ASI, isn't new at all. It has been around for a long time. What this essay does is put ASI into historical context and put forth a solution to a problem that has also been around for a long time: republican constitutionalism (which has nothing to do with the GOP or Western right-wing movements). Republican constitutionalism is a restraint mechanism on centralized power that has been popular -- in a more subtle form<https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691138305/bounding-power https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691138305/bo...> - since the end of World War II and has always been a part of conversations about restraining power. Cool stuff, all 'round!