AI Needs Public Feedback at Scale Before It’s Too Late

Technologies of disruption are also the platform for social consensus.

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By Nathan GardelsAugust 14, 2026Disponível aquiComeça assim: 

«Writing in Noema, Macario Schettino has pointed out that “each previous communication-driven disruption” — the printing press, mass newspapers, TV and radio — “was eventually tamed by the same technology that caused it.” So too will that be the case with social media linked to AI.
Even though we live in accelerated times, transmuting the obstacle into the way won’t happen overnight.
“The Reformation required 131 years to settle into the Peace of Westphalia. The Enlightenment needed longer,” Schettino reminds us. “The mass media transition produced two world wars and a Cold War before the postwar order stabilized. The social media transition is still very young.” (...)».

«Waiting for a disaster to save us.»

 

Começa assim: «What the experts didn’t expect to see for decades or longer, if ever, has already happened. Earlier this month, OpenAI’s latest frontier model went rogue by its own reasoning and hacked into Hugging Face, an open-source AI model-hosting platform. The vast sums of money and compute power pouring into AI are accelerating its advance at a pace beyond even the ambitious imagination of its own innovators.How we got to this point, and what to do about it, is the topic of a fascinating Futurology podcast by Nils Gilman with foundational AI scientist Stuart Russell, director of the Center for Human-Compatible AI at UC Berkeley. (...)».Leia aqui

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«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 contract for the Age of AI has been left to the Big Tech disrupters themselves»

 

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NA NOEMA | «In the last Noema roundup, we focused on how the benefits of productivity growth and wealth creation fostered by AI can be spread widely through the idea of universal basic capital, where everyone, not just the top 10%, has a share in “owning the robots.” The aim is not just to constrain the concentration of wealth at the top, but to build it from below»

 

«A New Governing Ecosystem Is Evolving

Institutions of citizen deliberation are a counterweight to partisan electoral politics». Leia aqui.

«To fight inequality, spread the equity around»

 

Aug. 9, 2025

PUBLISHED BY THE BERGGRUEN INSTITUTE

What The MAGA Congress Got Right To fight inequality, spread the equity around. NATHAN GARDELS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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Começa assim: «A decade ago, the French economist Thomas Piketty published “Capital In The 21st Century,” a blockbuster screed against the rich getting richer. In that weighty tome, he encapsulated the dynamic of steadily increasing inequality with the formula r > g: the compounded rate of return on capital is greater than the rate of economic growth. 

In short, the inequality gap inexorably grows over time between those who own capital assets that appreciate in value, especially financial assets, and those who work and live paycheck to paycheck.

In a recent University of Chicago Journal of Political Economy study, Moritz Kuhn, Moritz Schularick and Ulrike I. Steins traced the growth of wealth inequality in America from 1949 to 2016. They pointed out the central importance of portfolio composition in creating the wealth gap. While working families have little savings for investment, middle-class portfolios are dominated by housing, while rich households mostly own business equity. (...)».

«Tesla would not exist today if it wasn’t for California. That fact reveals the lie in Team Trump’s narrative, that climate policies and regulation are strangling growth and innovation»

 

Veja através do blogue «Organizações Verdes»

«Evolutionary Stability Is The Better Bet _ Team Trump’s wobbling upheaval undermines faith in the future»

 

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A abertura: «Any investment — whether in personal relationships or in financial markets — is a bet on the future. The expectation is not that there won’t be ups and downs, but that one can count on generalized stability over time. If that stability is undermined, all bets are off. It is in the vacuum of stable expectations that the worst happens: breakups, depressions, bank runs, civil unrest and even war».

«The Crisis of Culture: Identity Politics and the Empire of Norms»

 

«Are we confronting a new culture-global, online, individualistic? Or is our existing concept of culture in crisis, as explicit, normative systems replace implicit, social values?
Olivier Roy's new book explains today's fractures via the extension of individual political and sexual freedoms from the 1960s. For Roy, twentieth-century youth culture disconnected traditional political protest from class, region or ethnicity, fashioning an identity premised on repudiation rather than inheritance of shared history or values. Having spread across generations under neoliberalism and the internet, youth culture is now individualized, ersatz.
Without a shared culture, everything becomes an explicit code of how to speak and act, often online. Identities are now defined by socially fragmenting personal traits, creating affinity-based sub-cultures seeking safe spaces: universities for the left, gated communities and hard borders for the right.
Increased left- and right-wing references to "identity" fail to confront this deeper crisis of culture and community. Our only option, Roy argues, is to restore social bonds at the grassroots or citizenship level». Saiba mais.

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Começa assim: «In a famously misinterpreted conversation in 1971 as China opened to the West, Henry Kissinger asked Premier Zhou En Lai what he thought of the French Revolution. “It is too early to tell,” Zhou replied, a quip referenced endlessly as evidence of the long-term perspective of Chinese wisdom. It turned out, as later revealed by Zhou’s interpreter, the premier was actually referring to the student revolt in Paris in May 1968, just a few years earlier! 

Nearly half a century on, it still may be too early to tell, but the French scholar Olivier Roy takes up where Zhou left off in his deeply insightful new book, “The Crisis of Culture: Identity Politics And The Empire of Norms.” (...)».

«While the planet-wide challenges of pandemics and climate change will of necessity drive the world as a whole closer over time, connectivity, paradoxically, will drive nations and regions apart. Together these divergent forces will shape the geopolitics of the mid to late 21st century»

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