NYC official: from hype to alarm, we're skipping AI's vast middle ground
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-09-25
NYC official Mark Levine (retweeted by ex-OpenAI policy head Miles Brundage) argues the zeitgeist has flipped from dismissing AI as hype to fearing existential risk — a concern he shares — but worries we're skipping the vast middle ground where AI's impact will land in a thousand ways. Few places feel this more than New York City, whose economy, workforce, budget, and even government operations are exposed to frontier systems like Astra and Fable — and effects would persist even if advancement stopped today.
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