The Disadvantages of Silicon Valley

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Google employees wrote in an open letter to Sundar Pichai, the company's chief executive officer. I fear that the views of a generation of engineers in Silicon Valley have meaningfully drifted from the center of gravity of American public opinion," he says. A more intimate collaboration between the state and the technology sector will be required if the U.S. and its allies are to maintain an advantage over their adversaries. The preconditions for a durable peace often come only from a credible threat of war., writes Peter Bergen.

A reading of Palantir CEO Alex Karp's recent essay for the New York Times and discussing the military applications of artificial intelligence. Links: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/25/opinion/karp-palantir-artificial-intelligence.html https://www.cnas.org/publications/reports/u-s-china-competition-and-military-ai ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/