Dean Ball: why did Hayekian orgs miss agent swarms while recycling 1980s regulation talking points?
deanwball · x · 2026-10-18
AI policy scholar Dean Ball agrees Hayekian thinkers would have found agent swarms unsurprising — as did he — but presses a sharper question: why did so few self-styled "Hayekian" organizations discuss agent swarms before they arrived, instead of parroting 1980s-era regulation talking points? A pointed critique of libertarian AI discourse drifting from actual tech trends.
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