The tech regulatory agenda

“Permissionless Innovation” isn’t the answer

The world of tech regulation is incredibly lively. Last week, a new bitcoin lobbying outfit, based in D.C., announced its formation. The S.E.C. rejected the first bitcoin ETF. And SXSW hosted a panel titled…

AI and State-Centric Thinking

You’ve seen the refrain: “Whose values will be built into AI?”

Behind this question — often posed with a hint of foreboding — rests an important assumption: that one set of values will be selected as the winner by some elite decision maker.

Battles versus Games: How to Think about Regulation in Tech

Last week I argued that Permissionless Innovation —which treats regulation as a battle between government and entreprenuers —is seriously misguided. Of course, it takes a theory to beat a theory. And the “battle” metaphor at…

Normative change in AI-based social simulations

When someone else sees the implications of something you wrote more clearly than you did.