From Disunity to Hegemony: Articulating AI Politics in the Techno-Optimist Manifesto

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Brief Overview

Using Laclau and Mouffe’s theory of articulation, this paper shows how Andreessen’s Techno-Optimist Manifesto unifies divided AI leaders by mobilizing shared discourses, contrasting its success with the Bitcoin Whitepaper’s failure to do the same.

Author

• Christian Yeomans, Loyola University Chicago