Core Beliefs Still Matter
I think that I think, there are particular temptations that arrive with every major technological revolution. We begin by believing we are building tools to help us. Eventually, we start reorganizing ourselves around them. That temptation is accelerating in the age of artificial intelligence. AI promises extraordinary advances in medicine, science, education, and productivity. Americans should approach those possibilities with confidence and ambition. A country that stops innovating eventually stops leading. But technological revolutions do not merely change what societies can do. They change what societies reward, what societies normalize, and ultimately what societies become. That is the deeper challenge now. In a speech at the Manhattan Institute , former Senator and president of the University of Florida, Ben Sasse ( who has been written about before here in this space ) offered a line Americans should remember long after the applause has fade...