"Autonomy or Empire"- Rethinking What AI Is For

This week, I spoke with Harry Law, Editorial Lead at the Cosmos Institute and a researcher at the University of Cambridge, about AI and autonomy. Harry wrote a terrific essay on how generative AI might serve human autonomy rather than the empires Big Tech is intent on building.
In our conversation, we explore:
* What the Cosmos Institute is — and how it’s challenging the binary, deterministic thinking that dominates tech.
* The difference between “democratic” and “authoritarian” technologies — and why it depends less on the tools themselves than on the political, cultural, and economic…