If frontier intelligence becomes a public utility within the decade, which institutions are we failing to build now?

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Working thesis: The institutional vocabulary developed for electricity, water, and the postal service will not survive contact with a utility whose outputs are themselves cognitive. We are likely under-building accountability infrastructure and over-building access infrastructure.

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