Wrangling with Explosive AI Growth – Combatting Catastrophism
Topic / Science, Technology and Data Wrangling with Explosive AI Growth by- David Weidman | February 1, 2026 Share Page Policymakers are accustomed to thinking in finite measurable terms like laws, budgets, and program implementation. Artificial intelligence, however, no longer advances in a straight line or within the familiar boundaries of public administration. Instead, it seems to accelerate along exponential curves, reshaping expectations faster than institutions can plausibly adapt.
- ▪Topic / Science, Technology and Data Wrangling with Explosive AI Growth by- David Weidman | February 1, 2026 Share Page Policymakers are accustomed to thinking in finite measurable terms like laws, budgets, and program implementation.
- ▪Artificial intelligence, however, no longer advances in a straight line or within the familiar boundaries of public administration.
- ▪Instead, it seems to accelerate along exponential curves, reshaping expectations faster than institutions can plausibly adapt.
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Topic / Science, Technology and Data Wrangling with Explosive AI Growth by- David Weidman | February 1, 2026 Share Page Policymakers are accustomed to thinking in finite measurable terms like laws, budgets, and program implementation. Artificial intelligence, however, no longer advances in a straight line or within the familiar boundaries of public administration. Instead, it seems to accelerate along exponential curves, reshaping expectations faster than institutions can plausibly adapt. To many observers, it feels less like a set of discrete advances and more like an uncontrollable, or even frightening, open-ended growth event.
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