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The political economy of AI explicitly or implicitly shapes arguments about the consequences of AI for politics and policy. Will AI continue to scale until it produces super-human intelligence? Will it continue to need enormous amounts of human generated data? What consequences will it have for the working of the economy and bureaucracy? And how will its benefits and costs be distributed among different social groups? In this seminar class, we will explore emerging debates over how the technology of AI intersects with classic debates in political economy.