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Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.

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  AI labs fund social science partly to manage the fact that the AI buildout is unpopular, seeking ways to make it more acceptable to the public.

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  I suspect that some of the labs' willingness to put money into the social sciences stems from the realization of senior people that the practical build out of AI is highly unpopular in the U.S and their urgent desire to figure out how to sugarcoat the pill so that it will get swallowed

  How should social science think about AI?programmablemutter.com

Co-founder of NVIDIA and, as of 2026, its chief executive; the company designs the GPUs most large AI models are trained on.

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  The simple work gets automated away, but the hard sciences and the places where they intersect never will.

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  I think the simple stuff is going to get automated away, but the hard problems, the hard sciences, um physics, chemistry, biology, uh you know, computer science, uh computer engineering, systems thinking, uh you know, all and and particularly the domains that are intersecting, uh those hard problems will never go away.

  Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIAyoutube.com

Palaeontologist at Queen Mary University of London; studies dinosaur behaviour and writes about what the fossil record can and cannot tell us.

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  Palaeontology is unlike other sciences because its evidence is eroding away: dig the fossils up now, and we have forever to study them.

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  But fossils are in places that erode, and if we don't dig them up, they're gone. So we should dig all the fossils up now, and then we've got forever to study them.

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Historian of invention; writes Age of Invention on where the Industrial Revolution actually came from.

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  Historians should be required to publish photographs or transcriptions of the archival sources they cite, the way scientists are expected to publish their data.

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  Just as in the sciences it is considered good practice to make one’s data available, in history it should perhaps be a requirement to upload to some public repository the photographs or transcriptions of any cited archival sources that are not otherwise freely accessible online.

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Game designer; chief creative officer at Spry Fox (Triple Town, Realm of the Mad God) and author of the Lost Garden design blog.

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  The social sciences have theory but not a design practice, which is why building working social systems falls to game designers.

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  A big moment of realization for me is that most of the social sciences are not design practices.

  A design practice for social systemslostgarden.com