A Critical Review of Technocratic Visions: AI, American Anxiety, and the Specter of a Chinese Century
By
Mathias Fuelling
Summary
A critical review of three books by Silicon Valley and ruling-class ideologues (Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, Alex Karp & Nicholas Zamiska, and Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares), examining how they reflect a crisis in American capitalism and an ambient anxiety about the future. The analysis frames these works as technocratic, AI-fueled responses to perceived threats from a rising "Chinese Century," arguing they represent ruling-class attempts to bolster Silicon Valley-led technocracy rather than genuine solutions to systemic problems.
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Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West by Alex C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares; these are the works of our enemies.
In examining them, we gain a sense of the particular neuroses and hangups
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