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Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: uncertainty
9 Apr 2025 Conversations with Tyler Jennifer Pahlka on Reforming Government
“We’re going to see a very radical shaking out that will go fully unadvertised, but at the end of it all, geopolitics will be very different. I don’t know that France can build an AI good enough, actually.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- 9 Apr 2025
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…Question back to you. Is there some way in which the market fixes this because there’s a market for AI that doesn’t implicate that there’s Serenity? I worry that the economies of scale are in conflict with a number of nations in the world today. We’re going to see a very radical shaking out that will go fully unadvertised, but at the end of it all, geopolitics will be very different. I don’t know that France can build an AI good enough, actually. They had Mistral. They still do. It’s not making money. People want to buy it. Macron says we’re going to basically prop it up, but you can’t just prop it up. It has to be good enough to work and be competitive. I don’t know. Won’t there be companies that have enough AI expertise that they’re able to cater to the needs of a sovereign nation and say, “I’ll do this for you in the way that fits your needs”?…
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