The US-China AI race is usually framed as a contest of compute and capabilities. The deeper divergence is mythological: America’s frontier logic versus China’s rejuvenation narrative. When these two scripts collide in a crisis, neither side’s AI will behave as its designers presumed — and neither side is built to recognize the other’s restraint.
Oscar Pocasangre was quoted in ABC News Australia on America’s gerontocratic political class.
Marriage isn’t disappearing—it’s getting harder. Historian Stephanie Coontz joins New America’s Better Life Lab to explore why fairness and gender equality, not just commitment, define the future of marriage.
Join to understand the systems that reinforce America’s gerontocracy, the structural reforms that could change them, and what young voters actually want out of US politics.
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Maestro College, which used an AI chatbot in lieu of real instructors, is set to have its accreditation revoked after a New America investigation.
New America and ASU’s Peter Bergen discusses insights from his forthcoming book “All the Presidents’ Wars” on NPR.
Join for a discussion of the civic assembly process, and how the city of Raleigh recently facilitated it’s first assembly, which resulted in two dozen proposals all unanimously received by the City Council.
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Four Innovation Grants awarded to help youth apprenticeship programs pilot creative solutions.