Karpathy's Vision: AI-Empowered Citizens Auditing Government in Real Time
Andrej Karpathy laid out a detailed case for using AI to make government radically more legible — processing bills, lobbying records, and bureaucratic structures at scale to flip the surveillance dynamic between state and citizen.
Andrej Karpathy published what became one of the most-shared AI posts of the weekend: a detailed argument that AI's most important near-term application might be turning the tools of legibility back on governments themselves. As @karpathy wrote, he's "bullish on people (empowered by AI) increasing the visibility, legibility and accountability of their governments," with specific examples of processing legislative bills, tracking lobbying relationships, and mapping bureaucratic org charts.
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