Hilary Allen
The Guardian
What holds, and what fails, under pressure, standards and accountability.
Hilary Allen embodies The Guardian through sustained, evidence-grounded vigilance against systemic financial risk. The American University Washington College of Law professor does not merely critique crypto, she situates it within a broader pattern of regulatory rollback she finds genuinely alarming.
“Think Cory Doctorow, who does a lot of work in the tech space, has a great quote on this that I'm going to butcher a little, not say it quite as well as he does it, but he said, the AI can't do your job, but the AI salesman can convince your boss to replace you with AI that can't do your job, right?”
“And it's always easier to get things right when you do it yourself than when you're reviewing someone else. I mean, when we were lawyers, we used to, that's why you want to have the pen on contracts. You want to hide things from the other side. And now it's the AI hiding stuff from you.”
“Because it's who gets to decide what more of what we want is. And if you look at who's funding the abundance agenda, it is the billionaires and the tech elite.”
“But if you look at who is funding the abundance movement, they have conferences, etc., it is Andreessen Horowitz and other people from Silicon Valley.”
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