Western anxiety about AI is partly due to 'challenge of affluence'—lack of grand narrative after Cold War's end; affluence allows for meandering whereas competition forces urgency and adaptation.
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“we are suffering from a challenge of of affluence anyway. It's been meandering for for decades and it it has been, you know, also embedded certainly from the perspective of the West with trying to find a large story after the end of the cold war”
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