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Venkatesh Rao: AI fear echoes mercantilism's hoarding of intelligence

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Venkatesh Rao: AI fear echoes mercantilism's hoarding of intelligence

Engineer Venkatesh Rao compared the fear of AI job losses to mercantilism, saying intelligence is treated as a scarce resource that elites want to control.

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