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“Sense-making about extreme power concentration” by rosehadshar

14 Sep 2025

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Various people are worried about AI causing extreme power concentration of some form, for example via: Powergrabs The intelligence curse Gradual disempowerment I have been talking to some of these people and trying to sense-make about ‘power concentration’. These are some notes on that, mostly prompted by some comment exchanges with Nora Ammann (in the below I’m riffing on her ideas but not representing her views). Sharing because I found some of the below helpful for thinking with, and maybe others will too. (I haven’t tried to give lots of context, so it probably makes most sense to people who’ve already thought about this. More the flavour of in progress research notes than ‘here's a crisp insight everyone should have’.)AI risk as power concentration Sometimes when people talk about power concentration it sounds to me like they are talking about most of AI risk, including AI takeover [...] ---Outline:(00:55) AI risk as power concentration(03:58) Power concentration as the undermining of checks and balances--- First published: September 11th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/tnkEoTxdGCsBFRQty/sense-making-about-extreme-power-concentration --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

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