Dean Ball: Hayek's heirs should take 'AI as abnormal technology' seriously
deanwball · x · 2026-10-17
AI policy researcher Dean Ball laments that Hayek's writings on spontaneous orders are strikingly relevant to AI and should make his intellectual heirs take "AI as abnormal technology" seriously—yet many instead push cope-laden views. He adds that even Tyler Cowen holds doomers to a far higher evidentiary standard than bloomers, which he reads as largely tribal, while noting exceptions like Alex Tabarrok.
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