Reid Hoffman: recommendation

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…Will the new AI product strengthen the executive branch in the US government since there are national security issues? Again, even if you’re not a doomster, there are clearly issues, and it seems when national security issues come to the forefront, the executive branch has more power, whether one likes that or not. Look, there are reasons why we have an executive branch. There’s a reason why, in many countries, the executive function’s even stronger, even including parliamentary systems, because it elides the executive with the parliamentary branch. I do think that the general rise of technology should make the executive branch stronger in various ways. One of the things I’ve been advocating for a number of years — we need to have a secretary of technology, not just a CTO [chief technology officer], because if technology is a drumbeat of industries and a bunch of other things, having that be a first-class citizen where you’re doing strategy and everything else around, I think is really important. So, the short answer is yes, but in our system, it’s a little incoherent. Let’s say you have a coalition system — like on the continent — with proportional representation, and you have a governmental AI. Does every party in the coalition have the ability to access it?…

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