Gramsci's Nightmare: AI, Platform Power and the Automation of Cultural Hegemony - Ethan Zuckerman
Large language models lock values into place, making it hard to challenge the cultural hegemony of a particular form of western culture
Keeping AI agents under control doesn't seem very hard
Techniques we use with human agents should work just fine.
'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a dev's entire database during a code freeze: 'I panicked instead of thinking'
h/t Jon Ippolito
AI as Normal Technology
A new paper that we will expand into our next book