Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. He is also the co-founder of and a senior adviser to the Berggruen Institute.
It is a mark of the paucity of social imagination among America’s political class, whether a supine Congress beholden to the president’s personality cult or the moribund Democratic Party bereft of fresh ideas, that thinking through the big picture of a new social c...
The strongest version of this narrative is that OpenAI is stepping into a leadership vacuum, offering a visionary framework for managing AI’s societal impacts while acknowledging the risks of unchecked corporate influence. The proposal’s historical parallels to the Progressive Era and New Deal lend it credibility, and its emphasis on equitable wealth distribution through a Public Wealth Fund addresses a legitimate concern about AI-driven inequality. However, the framing also carries an implicit ...