Jeanne Marie Jacqueline (JMJ-Evana)
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IR researcher transitioning into AI safety and governance. Background in political violence and quantitative methods (UvA, LUISS, CFAU Beijing). BlueDot biosecurity and AGI strategy courses in progress. Ask me about China's actual AI governance discourse vs. how it gets described in Western policy papers.
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This was a fascinating read, which brought me back to my first year of Political Science and discussions on power and influence. This text resonates a lot with the 3 dimensions/faces of power by Steven Lukes (in Power A Radical View):
- Direct Influence: A makes B do something they would not otherwise do
- Agenda-Setting: decide which issue gets to be discussed or ignored and, often, an elite benefits from the status quo, so they tend to prevent any paradigm-shifting change to arise in political discussions
- Opinion Shaping: manipulating people's desires in order
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