Salomé Viljoen

Assistant Prof at Michigan Law || I think about how the law thinks about data || pro science and technology, anti scams

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Imagine if we were mobilizing our entire economic force for the actual technological miracle of our time, clean tech, instead of AI that's gonna make 5 of the world's worst dudes trillionaires: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/o...

Opinion | A.I. Is Strangling Our Economy - The New York Times nytimes.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • In a NYT opinion piece, Jennifer M. Harris argues the AI buildout has begun to crowd out the rest of the U.S. economy.
  • She calls it one of the largest peacetime mobilizations of capital in modern American history, on track to top $1 trillion annually next year.
  • Her resource-competition argument: capital, power and political attention are being diverted from housing, manufacturing and grid upgrades.
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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com

“That’s why the students are booing, I think. They’re experiencing AI in realtime as a forecloser of futures; as the cruel new face of hyper-scaling capitalism, as the prime agent moving a world that’s become a deck stacked against them.” — @bcmerchant.bsky.social really nails…

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social

Hi. Not really sure how to promote this story...but it is about AI and the overwhelming feeling of it bleeding into everything with no concrete articulation for what a good version of that future looks like. It's about feeling like every 8th person is living on another planet.…

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