WE’VE LAUNCHED! I'm proud to officially announce that I am part of an amazing team launching the Abundance Institute. I'll be Head of AI Policy.
We’ve been in soft-launch for a little while. In fact, we had an event in D.C. on April 11. PROMPT: AI, Antitrust, and Abundance provided a reality-check counter-programing to the concurrent American Bar Association’s Antitrust Spring Meeting's very negative view on the future of AI. It was a great event with an amazing lineup including Andreeseen Horowitz’s Chief Legal Officer Jai Ramaswamy and Alphabet’s President of Global Affairs Kent Walker, and many others.
As I said in my opening remarks at that event, the Abundance Institute is a new, mission-driven nonprofit. We’re dedicated to creating an environment where emerging technologies (including artificial intelligence) can develop and thrive in order to perpetually expand widespread human prosperity.
We think this mission is critical because so much of our politics and culture are poisoned with a scarcity mindset that is pessimistic about the future and thinks in zero-sum, painful tradeoffs. We want to foster not just an abundance mindset but an abundant reality, an environment of win-win problem solving where technology drives humankind to unimagined flourishing.
That’s some lofty rhetoric, but we’re practical people. We pursue this work through shaping policy, building talent and community, and driving an optimistic narrative.
In the near future, I will be focused on the policy and narrative fight around AI and computation. Given my background, the AI / @FTC intersection will have some emphasis, but I will be engaging in other arenas as well.
One of our roles at Abundance Institute is to compliment and amplify other organizations and individuals doing great work to bring the benefits of technology into the mainstream. Please reach out if you have work to share or if you just want to chat.
We're the Abundance Institute. We're excited for the future.
Good morning, I would like to share a few lawyers you should add to your network. Here's a link to recent study using modern algs. https://ij.org/report/unaccountable/