Institutions, Not Models, Constrain AI's Social Value, Evans and Weyl Argue

James Evans and Glen Weyl argue in Science that institutions, not models, now constrain AI's social value. Evans adds that general-purpose technologies historically spawn mirror-image institutions, and mismatches can stall progress for decades.

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