Yves here. Below, Lynn Parramore provides a particularly useful taxonomy of the major factions in the Democratic party on Big Tech policy, particularly on AI. Importantly, she explains how a group of sellouts, um, Accommodationists, do not want to upset the oligarchs’ power and are thus content to put on blinkers as far as AI risks are concerned.

One of Parramore’s key observations that these Big Tech toadies cleverly use language in a way that makes them sound like they are promoting serious pro-general-public measures when that is not their aim. Parramore fingers Obama as a leader in this camp, and how his weak-at-best curbs approach is a rerun of his post-crisis “reforms”. As we said during Obama’s time in office, his idea of negotiating is to set his ask as 75% of what the other side wants.

By Lynn Parramore, Senior Research Analyst and Communications Strategist, Institute for New Economic Thinking.…