Economist slams government-backed frontier AI bets as old-fashioned winner-picking
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-10-30
Afinetheorem argues that a government plan to fund domestic frontier models is old-fashioned winner-picking, not a serious Moonshot-style attempt. He says the named private partners (Schwarz, Bell, Proximity7) are all protected-sector government IT vendors, and that distorting winner financing via taxpayers offers no path to growth.
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