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Economists recast 'agentic AI' as a cultural myth, not emerging intelligence

Farrell and Shalizi call agentic AI a 'condensate of human culture'

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In an Economist essay cross-posted to Substack, Henry Farrell and Cosma Shalizi argue agentic AI is not an emerging individual intelligence but a statistical distillation of written human knowledge that, once 'harnessed' to software, acts out cultural narratives on the digital and physical world. Brad DeLong promotes the piece via Mastodon.

Farrell and Shalizi call agentic AI a 'condensate of human culture'
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“Modern AI is neither god nor mechanical bird. It is best understood as a technological version of the Homeric songs that inspired Alexander's conquests”

Henry Farrell and Cosma Shalizi

Henry Farrell Co-author of the essayCosma Shalizi Co-author of the essayBrad DeLong Economist, newsletter authorMatt Dyson BCA Research chief technology and innovation strategist

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