Kershlin Krishna

Editor’s note: Jacob Taylor is a fellow at the Center for Sustainable Development (CSD). His working paper, co-authored with CSD Project Manager Kershlin Krishna, makes the argument that power in the relationship between people and artificial intelligence boils down to who controls the context: the rich, personalized information that people bring to their interactions with the technology.

Executive summary It will come as no surprise to many that “-maxxing”—the internet’s viral shorthand for obsessive, algorithmically mediated optimization—now features in AI industry debates. “Token-maxxing” has emerged as a meme within firms encouraging employees to maximize their AI usage, measured by consumption of tokens or units of AI compute.

Executive summary Cities in the U.S. and globally face a severe, system-wide housing shortfall—exacerbated by siloed, proprietary, and fragile data practices that impede coordinated action. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) promise to increase the speed and effectiveness of data integration and decisionmaking for optimizing housing supply.