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Scenarios for Our Economic Future
Explore how different paths for AI could change jobs, growth, and the economy.
After Work, We’ll Have Each Other
Relationships, belonging, and the social world that could follow paid work.
On the Loose
What autonomous agents could mean for identity, accountability, and institutions.
The Inner Ring
The pull of insider status, and the difference between belonging and exclusion.
Principles for a New Utopianism
A case for imagining better futures with humility, pluralism, and hope.
Economic Policy for AGI
Eleven policy approaches to economic disruption, shared prosperity, and human agency.
A U.S. Strategy to Secure Geopolitical Advantage on an Uncertain Path to Superintelligence
Maintaining freedom of action as AI reshapes geopolitical competition.
An Alien Mind
Understanding, aligning, and monitoring increasingly capable AI systems.
Master of the Senate
Lyndon Johnson, legislative power, and the workings of the U.S. Senate.
Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading
How attention and social incentives shape the ideas we share—and those we lose.
How AI Becomes a Political Crisis
A conversation with Anton Leicht on jobs, infrastructure, and AI’s political consequences.
Of Swarms and Sand Gods
Alignment, oversight, and institutional design in a world of interacting AI agents.