What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI
While the initial frenzy around the IPO eventually died down, Musk remains worth more than $900 billion, and SpaceX retains a market capitalization of more than $2 trillion. But this particular hype is grounded in a particular set of beliefs that are no longer held merely on the fringes of the tech industry or the more esoteric corners of the internet. What’s more, many of the conclusions rooted in these beliefs (i.e., that AI is the most transformative technology of all time, promising/threatening seismic changes to the workplace, the economy and world politics, to which we can only adapt) are currently treated as settled fact in mainstream discourse.
- ▪While the initial frenzy around the IPO eventually died down, Musk remains worth more than $900 billion, and SpaceX retains a market capitalization of more than $2 trillion.
- ▪But this particular hype is grounded in a particular set of beliefs that are no longer held merely on the fringes of the tech industry or the more esoteric corners of the internet.
- ▪What’s more, many of the conclusions rooted in these beliefs (i.e., that AI is the most transformative technology of all time, promising/threatening seismic changes to the workplace, the economy and world politics, to which we can only adap
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| Publication time | Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:16:14 +0000 |
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