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The AI State That Wasn't There
Javier Milei came to power promising to take a chainsaw to the Argentine state. But while parts of the traditional bureaucracy were being dismantled, something very different was quietly taking shape.
In “The AI State That Wasn’t There,” Jonathan Rodebaugh follows two of Argentina’s biggest AI announcements—a proposed $25 billion OpenAI-linked data center and a “Social Digital Twin” intended to simulate society and anticipate policy outcomes—and compares the headlines with what the underlying documents actually show.
Then the story takes a turn.
While Argentina’s most spectacular AI projects…
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