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Ian Margo & Fakewhale Interview, d/wb project
Coasean Bargaining at Scale Séb Krier
Crisis Media: Sonic Architectural Synaesthesia, Stochastic Redundancy and Nuclear Post-Humanitarian Tactic Yidi Lola Wang
Chatbots as Psychoanalysts, or, ‘The Talking Cure Morgane Billuart
Creative Liberation or Digital Colonization?, David Lazăr
The Artificial Unconscious, Germán Sierra
Artificiality and Emotions: Beyond the FleshMorgane Billuart
Fango 1000 & Large Lore Models, dmstfctn, Alasdair Milne, Eva Jäger
Self Stalking Prey: A Study for a Portrait of Little Red Riding Hood, Carl Olsson
What Is Artificial Experience (AX), William Morgan













Séb Krier

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Sébastien (Séb) Krier leads policy development and strategy at Google DeepMind. He is an artificial intelligence policy expert, adviser, and attorney working to improve the regulatory and legal frameworks governing AI and studying the impacts of emerging technologies on democracy and human rights. He previously served in the U.K. government’s Office for Artificial Intelligence as the head of regulation where he led the world’s first comprehensive review of AI in the public sector and designed policies to address novel issues such as the oversight of automated decision-making systems. He also represented the United Kingdom at various multilateral fora such as the European Commission, the World Economic Forum, the OECD, and the Digital Nations. Krier studied law at King’s College London and obtained an MPA focusing on technology and social impact from the University College London.

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Coasean Bargaining at ScaleSéb Krier

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Much has been written about how AI can pose risks to society, particularly in aging Western countries where a sense of latent anxiety has taken over the discourse on technology for the past decade. Sometimes this is legitimate, and sometimes it feels like a continuation of existing Western pessimism. Few have been able to advance a positive vision of what we should be striving for at a socio-political level. Here I’d like to make an attempt. This essay explores how, by providing cognition-and-agency on demand, AI agents could amplify human agency to the point where we can escape the zero-sum traps that have plagued political economy for centuries.

There is a timeless question at the heart of any (free) society: how do we allow individuals to pursue their own interests when one person's actions inevitably affect the well-being of another in ways that are negative-sum? Economists have a name for this: “externalities,” which can take either physical or financial forms. The sheer scale of this challenge was crystallized in a groundbreaking 1986 paper by economists Bruce Greenwald and Joseph Stiglitz. They demonstrated that because our world is rife with imperfect information, moral hazards, and incomplete markets, externalities are not the exception, but the rule. This pervasive market failure became the intellectual bedrock for modern regulatory regimes. But the solution has always been the same: the coercive hand of the state and a top-down micro-management of society. We are told that only a central authority, a government board or commission, can resolve these conflicts by dictating who can do what, and where.
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