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Azeem Azhar on the 'exponential gap' — technology advances exponentially while institutions adapt linearly. This mismatch produces crises in regulation, education, and governance that get worse as the gap widens.
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Azhar: the environment-shapes-behavior Canon assumes the environment changes slowly enough for behavior to adapt. Exponential technological change violates this assumption — the environment changes faster than humans can adapt.
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Azhar: studying how previous generations navigated exponential change (the printing press, electricity, the internet) provides frameworks for navigating AI. The pattern is consistent: disruption, panic, institutional adaptation, new equilibrium.
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