Preserving Human Competence in an Age of AI

1. Productive Markets

Channeling the pursuit of profit toward the nation's liberty and prosperity

Economists have misread economic conditions, prompting a justified populist backlash. Most Americans prioritize dignified work, self-sufficiency, and solidarity over unconstrained consumption. Policymakers must understand and respect the nation’s frustrations and aspirations if they are to serve it effectively. Read More

2. Supportive Communities

Strengthening the institutions that allow markets to deliver on their promise

Individuals only flourish when shaped and supported by their families, neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, labor unions, churches, and more. Public policies and economic forces play powerful roles in reinforcing or eroding the foundations of these institutions, which are essential to our liberty and prosperity. Read More

3. Responsive Politics

Defining success as achievement of the outcomes that people value most

Economists have misread economic conditions, prompting a justified populist backlash. Most Americans prioritize dignified work, self-sufficiency, and solidarity over unconstrained consumption. Policymakers must understand and respect the nation’s frustrations and aspirations if they are to serve it effectively. Read More

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Preserving Human Competence

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While pundits and policymakers debate the promise and peril of artificial intelligence ad nauseam, too little discussion to date has centered on perhaps the central question raised by AI: how can it serve and preserve human competence? Here, even the greatest promise of AI (dazzling productivity increases) is also its peril: the loss of human skill and agency. It's high time for a philosophical conversation about tech policy: what is human competence? Why does it matter for our economy, society, and politics? How is it threatened today by AI? And how might we conceive, design, and use AI systems to reliably serve as bicycles—rather than mobility scooters—for the mind?

American Compass's Tech Policy Caucus and the Foundation for American Innovation invite you to a special salon on February 11, featuring some of the brightest minds in AI development and policy—Avital Balwit (Chief of Staff at Anthropic), Seb Krier (Policy Lead at Google DeepMind), and Yo Shavit (Policy Lead at OpenAI)—and moderated by your American Compass Program Director, Brad Littlejohn.

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Drinks and hors d'oeuvres provided.

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