In April 1941, with the Wehrmacht in Paris and the Ribbentrop–Molotov pact still in force, the political theorist James Burnham published “The Managerial Revolution,” which famously declared that ...

Saffron Huang is co-founder and advisor at the Collective Intelligence Project, working on enabling more democratic emerging technologies, and a researcher on the Societal Impacts team at Anthropic.

Sara Imari Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist at Arizona State University and the Santa Fe Institute. Walker develops theories and experiments toward characterizing the origin of ...

Yuen Yuen Ang is the Alfred Chandler Chair of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of How China Escaped the Poverty Trap and China’s Gilded Age. In 2021, Apolitical named ...

The Chinese government, by contrast, is taking the reins firmly in hand with few qualms. In China, “human alignment” of AIs ...

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. The relentless monthlong assault by the U.S. and Israel does not ...

Arianna Huffington is the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, a behavior change technology company with the mission of improving health outcomes and productivity. She is also the founder of The ...

Vincent Ialenti is a former U.S. Department of Energy official on the research faculty in Cal Poly Humboldt’s Department of Environmental Studies. He holds a PhD in anthropology from Cornell ...

Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, where he is also a Faculty Fellow of ...

Jess McHugh is an author and journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic and TIME, among others. Her second nonfiction book, “Beg, Borrow, Scam,” is ...

Greg Easley is a technologist, writer and adjunct professor at the New School, where he teaches media studies. His work focuses on responsible AI, education and media innovation. Last winter in New ...