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AI labs fund social science partly to manage the fact that the AI buildout is unpopular, seeking ways to make it more acceptable to the public.
Drawn from what Henry Farrell said
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What Henry Farrell actually said
- Henry Farrell Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author
I suspect that some of the labs' willingness to put money into the social sciences stems from the realization of senior people that the practical build out of AI is highly unpopular in the U.S and their urgent desire to figure out how to sugarcoat the pill so that it will get swallowed
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↗How should social science think about AI?programmablemutter.com
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