What Henry Farrell thinks about LLMs
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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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Henry Farrell has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingAI should be thought of as a kind of condensate of human culture that can be deployed in novel ways.
Their wordsInstead, it suggests that we ought think of AI as a kind of condensate of human culture that can be deployed in very novel ways, and even become a self mobilizing myth.
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Their wordsI 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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