{"id":25138,"date":"2026-09-27T11:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T09:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/27\/democracy-blindsides-silicon-valleys-power-players-looking-to-transform-the-world-with-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T11:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T09:37:27","slug":"democracy-blindsides-silicon-valleys-power-players-looking-to-transform-the-world-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/27\/democracy-blindsides-silicon-valleys-power-players-looking-to-transform-the-world-with-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy blindsides Silicon Valley\u2019s power players looking to transform the world with AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018The push against datacenters speaks to the frustration of people who don\u2019t feel they are making the choices in their lives\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Stanford ethicist Rob Reich was once invited to a dinner organized by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/silicon-valley\">Silicon Valley<\/a> mogul to discuss what a state designed to maximize science and tech powered by commercial models might look like. The gathered technologists were drawn to the idea of building a small nation-state dedicated to the endeavor, Reich recalls in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/systemerrorbook.com\/\">System Error<\/a>: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>When Reich asked whether this state would be a democracy, he got a cool no. \u201cDemocracy is too slow, and it holds science back,\u201d he was told. \u201cTo optimize for science, we need a beneficent technocrat in charge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2026\/sep\/27\/democracy-ai-datacenters-power\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a73845d038c028e7ce80f3593fcc5023a3e9f17e\/0_369_1638_1310\/master\/1638.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=69b0c28ae9753677f90e06c9258d2dbd\" title=\"Democracy blindsides Silicon Valley\u2019s power players looking to transform the world with AI\" \/>\u2018The push against datacenters speaks to the frustration of people who don\u2019t feel they are making the choices in their lives\u2019<br \/>\nThe Stanford ethicist Rob Reich was once invited to a dinner organized by a Silicon Valley mogul to discuss what a state designed to maximize science and tech powered by commercial models might look like. The gathered technologists were drawn to the idea of building a small nation-state dedicated to the endeavor, Reich recalls in \u201cSystem Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot it\u201d.<br \/>\nWhen Reich asked whether this state would be a democracy, he got a cool no. \u201cDemocracy is too slow, and it holds science back,\u201d he was told. \u201cTo optimize for science, we need a beneficent technocrat in charge.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018The push against datacenters speaks to the frustration of people who don\u2019t feel they are making the choices in their lives\u2019 The Stanford ethicist Rob Reich was once invited to a dinner organized by a Silicon Valley mogul to discuss what a state designed to maximize science and tech powered by commercial models might look &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/27\/democracy-blindsides-silicon-valleys-power-players-looking-to-transform-the-world-with-ai\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Democracy blindsides Silicon Valley\u2019s power players looking to transform the world with AI<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25138"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}