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Vivek Wadhwa

Vivek Wadhwa

Tech writer and ex-academic; serial AI critic

Tech writer and former Stanford / Carnegie Mellon distinguished fellow. Frequent commentator on AI's social and labor impacts, generally skeptical of frontier-lab self-regulation.

current Author / Speaker, Independent

Strategy positions

Near-term harms firstendorses

Documented present harms outweigh speculative existential narratives

Argues AI hype obscures concentrated power and labor disruption; calls for global coordination and public-interest research investment as the alternative to lab-led regulation.

We are letting Silicon Valley write the rules for technologies that will reshape every other industry. That is not how democracies are supposed to work.
articleVivek Wadhwa columns· wadhwa.com· 2024· faithful paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

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Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Vivek Wadhwa's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

  • Adam Grant

    Adam Grant

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Wharton organizational psychologist

  • Anna Lauren Hoffmann

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    UW iSchool; 'data violence' theorist

  • Anton Korinek

    Anton Korinek

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    UVA economist; AI and inequality

  • Brian Merchant

    Brian Merchant

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Tech writer; 'Blood in the Machine' author

  • Clay Shirky

    Clay Shirky

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    NYU emeritus; 'Here Comes Everybody', 'Cognitive Surplus'

  • Cynthia Breazeal

    Cynthia Breazeal

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    MIT Media Lab; social robotics; founder Jibo

Record last updated 2026-04-25.