What Henry Farrell thinks about AI agents

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Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.

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1. 12 Sept 2026

   Our readingThe right starting point for studying AI is treating it as genuinely powerful while its consequences unfold unpredictably through multiple complex social processes.

   Their wordsa recognition that AI is powerful (and will reshape power relations among humans) but that the consequences will flow messily through multiple complex processes that we really need to start mapping and understanding

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