Nathaniel Whittemore
28 March 2026
Stanford professor Andy Hall argues that instead of fixating on AI dystopia, we should be racing to build AI tools that make citizens smarter, represent them more faithfully, and force institutions to be more accountable. NLW reads key excerpts from Hall's essay and makes the case that agents built for governance, not just business, could reshape the relationship between people and power. Link: https://freesystems.substack.com/p/building-political-superintelligence Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Recall - The API for meeting recording. Get Get started today with $100 in free credits at https://www.recall.ai/aidb AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? sponsors@aidailybrief.ai
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