Lav Varshney Discusses AI and the Physical Economy of Intelligence - SBU News
->Stony Brook University | More on "AI's environmental and ethical impacts" at BigEarthData.ai | #ai
->Stony Brook University | More on "AI's environmental and ethical impacts" at BigEarthData.ai | #ai
Lav Varshney Discusses AI and the Physical Economy of Intelligence - SBU News
Artificial intelligence transforms daily life a little more every day. Healthcare, business, science, the arts and every other discipline are facing new ethical and environmental challenges as they grapple with the new capabilities and possibilities that come with artificial intelligence. In a far-reaching discussion titled “The Physical Economy of Intelligence: Marketcraft, Data Centers and Climate,” Lav Varshney, Della Pietra Infinity Professor and Inaugural Director of Stony Brook University’s AI Innovation Institute, discussed the puzzles, pitfalls and possibilities of an increasingly AI-reliant world. The talk took place September 23 in the Laufer Center and was sponsored by the Collaborative for the Earth, the Department of Political Science, and the AI Innovation Institute. Varshney said that despite the current national focus on data centers, the future of AI won’t be determined by the infrastructure and neural networks themselves. The institutions and markets built around the technology will determine where AI goes, and whether it’s a force for good or for ill. “It will also determine whether we can sustain these efforts in building infrastructure and running models,” said Varshney. “As we build markets for intelligence, we need to consider the economic and environmental repercussions and make sure that we can actually measure...
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September 25, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Corporate AI usage needs to be taxed. Heavily.
It is the only way to blunt the sting of coming job displacement.
Earmark tax revenues for employment programs and strategic marketcraft.
It is the only way to blunt the sting of coming job displacement.
Earmark tax revenues for employment programs and strategic marketcraft.
August 13, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Corporate AI usage needs to be taxed. Heavily.
It is the only way to blunt the sting of coming job displacement.
Earmark tax revenues for employment programs and strategic marketcraft.
It is the only way to blunt the sting of coming job displacement.
Earmark tax revenues for employment programs and strategic marketcraft.
What is the best anti-oligarchy policy agenda?@sunnysmalhotra.bsky.social and I make the case for the marketcraft solution.
Predistribution Is the Anti-Oligarchy Solution
Predistribution transforms society and markets to generate less inequality in the first place.
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May 4, 2026 at 3:05 PM
What is the best anti-oligarchy policy agenda?@sunnysmalhotra.bsky.social and I make the case for the marketcraft solution.
the idea that markets are natural and states only intervene in theme is fundamental to the libertarian worldview and it's a total fantasy. markets are created by the state
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
the idea that markets are natural and states only intervene in theme is fundamental to the libertarian worldview and it's a total fantasy. markets are created by the state
instant classic. great introduction to what the left is fundamentally about. surprised to hear Harris has come around on what he calls marketcraft (following Vogel academic.oup.com/book/3977) — the idea that markets are one very important policy tool among many
New @thedigradio.bsky.social, the left communist-democratic socialist synthesis you’ve been waiting for: it’s my ecumenical and anti-sectarian interview with Malcolm Harris on his lovely book What’s Left. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/what...
What’s Left w/ Malcolm Harris
Featuring Malcolm Harris on What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis. An open-minded and anti-sectarian discussion about an ecumenical book that plots out three paths forward for the left...
www.thedigradio.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
instant classic. great introduction to what the left is fundamentally about. surprised to hear Harris has come around on what he calls marketcraft (following Vogel academic.oup.com/book/3977) — the idea that markets are one very important policy tool among many
A fair tax system isn’t radical, it’s rational.
@boricuabc2.bsky.social
🎧 Listen to the full episode: https://youtu.be/vrarGIpva_0
#TaxJustice #WealthTax #StevenKVogel #MarketCraft #EconomicReform #PoliticalEconomy #PolicySolutions #UCberkeley #FairTaxNow #InequalityFix #EconTalk
@boricuabc2.bsky.social
🎧 Listen to the full episode: https://youtu.be/vrarGIpva_0
#TaxJustice #WealthTax #StevenKVogel #MarketCraft #EconomicReform #PoliticalEconomy #PolicySolutions #UCberkeley #FairTaxNow #InequalityFix #EconTalk
November 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
A fair tax system isn’t radical, it’s rational.
@boricuabc2.bsky.social
🎧 Listen to the full episode: https://youtu.be/vrarGIpva_0
#TaxJustice #WealthTax #StevenKVogel #MarketCraft #EconomicReform #PoliticalEconomy #PolicySolutions #UCberkeley #FairTaxNow #InequalityFix #EconTalk
@boricuabc2.bsky.social
🎧 Listen to the full episode: https://youtu.be/vrarGIpva_0
#TaxJustice #WealthTax #StevenKVogel #MarketCraft #EconomicReform #PoliticalEconomy #PolicySolutions #UCberkeley #FairTaxNow #InequalityFix #EconTalk
Equality begins at the starting line.
@boricuabc2.bsky.social
🎧 Listen to the full episode: https://youtu.be/vrarGIpva_0
#PreDistribution #MarketCraft #StevenKVogel #EconomicJustice #PublicInvestment #PolicyThatWorks #FairMarkets #PoliticalEconomy #UCberkeley #SocialMobility #InequalitySolutions
@boricuabc2.bsky.social
🎧 Listen to the full episode: https://youtu.be/vrarGIpva_0
#PreDistribution #MarketCraft #StevenKVogel #EconomicJustice #PublicInvestment #PolicyThatWorks #FairMarkets #PoliticalEconomy #UCberkeley #SocialMobility #InequalitySolutions
November 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Equality begins at the starting line.
@boricuabc2.bsky.social
🎧 Listen to the full episode: https://youtu.be/vrarGIpva_0
#PreDistribution #MarketCraft #StevenKVogel #EconomicJustice #PublicInvestment #PolicyThatWorks #FairMarkets #PoliticalEconomy #UCberkeley #SocialMobility #InequalitySolutions
@boricuabc2.bsky.social
🎧 Listen to the full episode: https://youtu.be/vrarGIpva_0
#PreDistribution #MarketCraft #StevenKVogel #EconomicJustice #PublicInvestment #PolicyThatWorks #FairMarkets #PoliticalEconomy #UCberkeley #SocialMobility #InequalitySolutions
“Today’s battle is about whether a marketcraft in the public interest can win out over an authoritarian impulse to bully corporations into strengthening presidential power.”
prospect.org/2025/11/10/t...
prospect.org/2025/11/10/t...
Rule by Deal - The American Prospect
Donald Trump engages in ad hoc agreements with individual companies and governments to expand his power. Some observers have described these actions as a new “economic nationalism”—but that term fails...
prospect.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
“Today’s battle is about whether a marketcraft in the public interest can win out over an authoritarian impulse to bully corporations into strengthening presidential power.”
prospect.org/2025/11/10/t...
prospect.org/2025/11/10/t...
“Today’s battle is about whether a marketcraft in the public interest can win out over an authoritarian impulse to bully corporations into strengthening presidential power.”
prospect.org/2025/11/10/t...
prospect.org/2025/11/10/t...
Rule by Deal - The American Prospect
Donald Trump engages in ad hoc agreements with individual companies and governments to expand his power. Some observers have described these actions as a new “economic nationalism”—but that term fails...
prospect.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“Today’s battle is about whether a marketcraft in the public interest can win out over an authoritarian impulse to bully corporations into strengthening presidential power.”
prospect.org/2025/11/10/t...
prospect.org/2025/11/10/t...
As ESP co-founder Chris Hughes writes in @prospect.org: “Today’s battle is about whether a marketcraft in the public interest can win out over an authoritarian impulse to bully corporations into strengthening presidential power.” https://prospect.org/2025/11/10/trump-rule-by-deal/
November 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
As ESP co-founder Chris Hughes writes in @prospect.org: “Today’s battle is about whether a marketcraft in the public interest can win out over an authoritarian impulse to bully corporations into strengthening presidential power.” https://prospect.org/2025/11/10/trump-rule-by-deal/
"Marketcraft isn't good or bad, in and of itself," says Facebook co-founder @c-hughes.bsky.social.
"I prefer clear rules that everyone can understand that make it easy to attract private investment and enable the private sector to lead and to be guided."
Apple: bit.ly/3ZZwGhN
"I prefer clear rules that everyone can understand that make it easy to attract private investment and enable the private sector to lead and to be guided."
Apple: bit.ly/3ZZwGhN
June 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
"Marketcraft isn't good or bad, in and of itself," says Facebook co-founder @c-hughes.bsky.social.
"I prefer clear rules that everyone can understand that make it easy to attract private investment and enable the private sector to lead and to be guided."
Apple: bit.ly/3ZZwGhN
"I prefer clear rules that everyone can understand that make it easy to attract private investment and enable the private sector to lead and to be guided."
Apple: bit.ly/3ZZwGhN
Facebook co-founder @c-hughes.bsky.social discusses marketcraft, the Meta antitrust trial, and why he would repeal social media's liability protections.
"To have this kind of industry-wide liability carve-out is unprecedented."
TONIGHT 8:30 pm ET
@pbs.org listings: to.pbs.org/39hI6Tf
"To have this kind of industry-wide liability carve-out is unprecedented."
TONIGHT 8:30 pm ET
@pbs.org listings: to.pbs.org/39hI6Tf
June 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Facebook co-founder @c-hughes.bsky.social discusses marketcraft, the Meta antitrust trial, and why he would repeal social media's liability protections.
"To have this kind of industry-wide liability carve-out is unprecedented."
TONIGHT 8:30 pm ET
@pbs.org listings: to.pbs.org/39hI6Tf
"To have this kind of industry-wide liability carve-out is unprecedented."
TONIGHT 8:30 pm ET
@pbs.org listings: to.pbs.org/39hI6Tf
"Marketcraft in and of itself isn't good or bad," explains @c-hughes.bsky.social, co-founder of Facebook and author of "Marketcrafters: The 100-Year Struggle to Shape the American Economy."
"It's a method of guiding and shaping markets which can be very effective in many cases and fail in others."
"It's a method of guiding and shaping markets which can be very effective in many cases and fail in others."
June 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
"Marketcraft in and of itself isn't good or bad," explains @c-hughes.bsky.social, co-founder of Facebook and author of "Marketcrafters: The 100-Year Struggle to Shape the American Economy."
"It's a method of guiding and shaping markets which can be very effective in many cases and fail in others."
"It's a method of guiding and shaping markets which can be very effective in many cases and fail in others."
One of the confounding but potentially useful things about ‘What’s Left’ is the attempt to treat both liberal marketcraft approaches and communist approaches in good faith. It’s an invitation to accept the inherent complexity and contradictions of path dependency in our actually existing world.
June 4, 2025 at 7:03 AM
One of the confounding but potentially useful things about ‘What’s Left’ is the attempt to treat both liberal marketcraft approaches and communist approaches in good faith. It’s an invitation to accept the inherent complexity and contradictions of path dependency in our actually existing world.
I’m also specifically talking about the 1980s and 1990s when neoliberal ideals were still being discussed as theoretical economics, marketcraft and public management, not the more recent explosion of privatised disinfo and influence operations and internationally coordinated far right mayhem.
June 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I’m also specifically talking about the 1980s and 1990s when neoliberal ideals were still being discussed as theoretical economics, marketcraft and public management, not the more recent explosion of privatised disinfo and influence operations and internationally coordinated far right mayhem.
🤔How can we reshape the American economy?
🎙️This week, TPN founder Zachary Karabell and Emma Varvaloucas asked Chris Hughes, Facebook co-founder, and Chair of the Economic Security Project, what he thinks about the differences between marketcraft and Trump’s tariffs.
link.chtbl.com/I8x_q_sX
🎙️This week, TPN founder Zachary Karabell and Emma Varvaloucas asked Chris Hughes, Facebook co-founder, and Chair of the Economic Security Project, what he thinks about the differences between marketcraft and Trump’s tariffs.
link.chtbl.com/I8x_q_sX
May 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
🤔How can we reshape the American economy?
🎙️This week, TPN founder Zachary Karabell and Emma Varvaloucas asked Chris Hughes, Facebook co-founder, and Chair of the Economic Security Project, what he thinks about the differences between marketcraft and Trump’s tariffs.
link.chtbl.com/I8x_q_sX
🎙️This week, TPN founder Zachary Karabell and Emma Varvaloucas asked Chris Hughes, Facebook co-founder, and Chair of the Economic Security Project, what he thinks about the differences between marketcraft and Trump’s tariffs.
link.chtbl.com/I8x_q_sX
“Public power needs the radical threat; communists need bail money; marketcraft needs an organized working-class constituency.”
April 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“Public power needs the radical threat; communists need bail money; marketcraft needs an organized working-class constituency.”
First was an engaging conversation with @c-hughes.bsky.social on "marketcraft" and how governments have historically influenced market creation and dynamics on the @lawfaremedia.org podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqKa... (2/6)
Lawfare Daily: Chris Hughes on His New Book, ‘Marketcrafters’
YouTube video by Lawfare
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April 23, 2025 at 1:37 AM
First was an engaging conversation with @c-hughes.bsky.social on "marketcraft" and how governments have historically influenced market creation and dynamics on the @lawfaremedia.org podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqKa... (2/6)
Today is launch day for the book Marketcrafters! I went on CNBC's SquawkBox to explain what it's all about -- and take on the skeptics www.cnbc.com/video/2025/0...
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes on the importance of marketcraft
Chris Hughes, Facebook co-founder, Economic Security Project chair and ‘Marketcrafters’ author, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the importance of government investments for political goals, impact of Pr...
www.cnbc.com
April 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Today is launch day for the book Marketcrafters! I went on CNBC's SquawkBox to explain what it's all about -- and take on the skeptics www.cnbc.com/video/2025/0...
The Federal Reserve’s role in monetary and regulatory policy is a textbook example of what Chris calls “marketcraft—the policy tradition of government shaping markets for shared prosperity.
In the Fed’s case: stable prices and full employment. 4/
In the Fed’s case: stable prices and full employment. 4/
April 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The Federal Reserve’s role in monetary and regulatory policy is a textbook example of what Chris calls “marketcraft—the policy tradition of government shaping markets for shared prosperity.
In the Fed’s case: stable prices and full employment. 4/
In the Fed’s case: stable prices and full employment. 4/
Organized Money - David Dayen & Matt Stoller
open.substack.com/pub/organize...
open.substack.com/pub/organize...
Marketcraft with Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes
Economist and author of "Marketcrafters: The 100-Year Struggle to Shape the American Economy" joins the show to talk Trump, tariffs, Meta, and how we shape markets through action and inaction.
open.substack.com
April 18, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Organized Money - David Dayen & Matt Stoller
open.substack.com/pub/organize...
open.substack.com/pub/organize...
Excited to share the latest episode of the Organized Money pod. We talk with Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook who called for its breakup in 2019. He just wrote this great book on the history of American governance called Marketcrafters, and we talked about government's critical role in markets:
Marketcraft with Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes
Economist and author of "Marketcrafters: The 100-Year Struggle to Shape the American Economy" joins the show to talk Trump, tariffs, Meta, and how we shape markets through action and inaction.
www.organizedmoney.fm
April 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Excited to share the latest episode of the Organized Money pod. We talk with Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook who called for its breakup in 2019. He just wrote this great book on the history of American governance called Marketcrafters, and we talked about government's critical role in markets:
Harris's term "marketcraft" captures a lot of what I've been trying to say about capitalism. Markets are tools that the state can use to structure economic activity, and they are absolutely useful for solving the climate crisis!
cc @gwagner.com
cc @gwagner.com
fresh audio product:
• Charlie Eaton @charlieeaton.bsky.social & Alina Gibadulina on the increasing prominence of financiers on university boards
• Malcolm Harris on a trio of political approaches to the climate crisis
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
• Charlie Eaton @charlieeaton.bsky.social & Alina Gibadulina on the increasing prominence of financiers on university boards
• Malcolm Harris on a trio of political approaches to the climate crisis
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
April 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Harris's term "marketcraft" captures a lot of what I've been trying to say about capitalism. Markets are tools that the state can use to structure economic activity, and they are absolutely useful for solving the climate crisis!
cc @gwagner.com
cc @gwagner.com