Luke Drago publishes MATS reading list on AI strategy and power concentration
luke_drago_ · x · 2026-09-23
Luke Drago shares the pre-reading list he and Rudolf give new MATS fellows, focused on AI strategy, futures, and preventing power concentration. It starts with Good Strategy, Bad Strategy for tackling ambiguous problems, recommends works like The Long Telegram, "Defining Movement Success" and Richard Ngo's "Power Lies Trembling", stresses that AI governance work requires understanding the technology and researchers' capability forecasts, and includes AI timelines scenario-planning pieces. They are soliciting historical case studies for a winter stream on lessons applicable to AI's societal impacts.
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