Category: Economics and AI
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We don’t have to build Data Centers this way, we choose to.
Piece 1 of a series on the AI infrastructure we are actually building. By Jeff Boortz and Claude The AI data center looks the way it does because of choices. Not laws of physics. Not technical necessity. Choices — made by particular people, in particular conditions, with particular blind spots, mostly in a hurry. The…
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Beware Blankets From AI Billionaires
A rebuttal to OpenAI’s “Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age“ Jeff Boortz and Claude, Anthropic This last Monday, OpenAI released a 13-page document titled “Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First.” It calls for public wealth funds, worker protections, capital gains tax reform, AI safety auditing, and international coordination. It is,…
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The Why for the Age of AI
A Manifesto for the Intentional Design of the Next Era of Human Existence By Jeff Boortz and Claude, Anthropic In 1995, Neil Postman warned that schools had become extraordinarily skilled at answering how — and had stopped asking why. He was right then. He has never been more relevant. AI has not created an education…
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Patents are the Foundation on which Innovation and Prosperity Rest
By Jeff Boortz and Claude, Anthropic While I would have called it, “How to shoot yourself in the foot and stifle a culture of innovation at the same time,” the Tomas J. Philipson commentary in today’s FORTUNE titled, “Former Trump advisor: ‘Conservatives’ risk killing America’s golden goose by taxing university research” is worth a read.…
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The Math Has Been Wrong Since 1987. AI Just Made It Worse.
Jeff Boortz and Claude discuss Daron Acemoglu’s findings on AI and income inequality, emphasizing the need for equitable benefit-sharing from AI innovations to address growing disparities.
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The AI Economy Will Look More Like 1750 Than 2025 – But Only If We Design It That Way.
Troy and I, along with Claude and ChatGPT explore how AI can revitalize decentralized ownership and entrepreneurship akin to pre-industrial cottage economies, emphasizing the need for designed governance structures to prevent exploitation by platform monopolies and ensure equitable distribution of innovation benefits.