Politico November 22, 2024
By Derek Robertson

Happy Friday, and welcome to this week’s edition of the Future in Five Questions. This week I spoke with Neil Chilson, head of AI policy at the Abundance Institute and former chief technologist for the Federal Trade Commission. Chilson recently wrote a blog post outlining the implications of this month’s election for artificial intelligence policy, and here he discusses why he thinks “artificial general intelligence” is overblown, why government-held assets can be a benefit to industry, and why he’s optimistic about the next four years. An edited and condensed version follows:

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