Anton Leicht(@anton_d_leicht):The ‘Permanent Periphery’ is to the world as the ‘Permanent Underclass’ is to one society. In my talk at Post-AGI, I argued the global version is much scarier: domestically, there are political and economic backstops, but globally, AI-driven inequality could quickly calcify.

2026.10.02 20:55

The ‘Permanent Periphery’ is to the world as the ‘Permanent Underclass’ is to one society. In my talk at Post-AGI, I argued the global version is much scarier: domestically, there are political and economic backstops, but globally, AI-driven inequality could quickly calcify.

David Duvenaud@DavidDuvenaud

2026.10.01 18:00

@anton_d_leicht on the "Permanent Periphery": Countries without frontier AI get the risks without the benefits, and become irrelevant. The backstops against a permanent underclass within a country (votes and redistribution) barely exist btwn countries.

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