Francis Fukuyama
American political scientist, author of The End of History and the Last Man (1992) and the memoir In the Realm of the Last Man (2026); Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University. Writes the Frankly Fukuyama column at Persuasion.
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Their wordsMachado should rightfully be president of Venezuela today.
↗The Spirit of Democracy Remains Strongpersuasion.community 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThe current situation in Venezuela following the Trump administration’s arrest of Maduro in early January is completely unsustainable and unjust.
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Their wordsNow that the Student List has won the parliamentary election, however, the very tactics that allowed them to achieve this victory will become a major liability.
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Their wordsI have become much more skeptical of the accelerationist narrative, and more open to some of the doomer scenarios. On the whole, this makes me think that regulation and a negotiated slowdown in the development of the technology is increasingly necessary.
↗Why I Changed My Mind About AI Riskpersuasion.community 1st of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsThe fundamental reason I don’t believe these extreme accelerationist claims is their overvaluation of intelligence as an input to economic growth, and their disregard for the material and political constraints that will keep growth within recognizable bounds.
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Their wordsThis lost labor simply cannot be compensated for by transferring money from the AI winners to the AI losers, in the form of, for example, universal basic income. A job and income mean much more than support for the material basis of life.
↗Why I Changed My Mind About AI Riskpersuasion.community 3rd of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsIn my view, the chief danger lies not in superintelligence per se, but rather in the growing use of increasingly capable agentic AI.
↗Why I Changed My Mind About AI Riskpersuasion.community 4th of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsThese speculations are misplaced, however: an AI does not need either consciousness or autonomous intentionality to become dangerous.
↗Why I Changed My Mind About AI Riskpersuasion.community 5th of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsStill, the doomer scenarios involving human extinction seem at this point very far-fetched.
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Their wordsThe liberal state was legitimate and stable not necessarily because it distributed material rewards equally, but because it provided equal recognition and thus satisfied the thymotic side of human striving.
↗The Beginning of the End of Historypersuasion.community 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThere is today far more consensus on the democratic side of liberal democracy than there is on the liberal part.
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Their wordsMuch of the democratic backsliding we’ve seen over the past decade has in fact been driven by groups claiming to represent “the people,” whose democratic legitimacy gives them the right to dismantle the constraints imposed by liberal restrictions on state power.
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Their wordsToday’s executive branch is so large, sprawling, and powerful that there needs to be a separation of powers within the executive, and not simply between the executive and the other two branches of government.
↗Trump Has Revolutionized Executive Powerpersuasion.community 1st of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsPainful experience with inflation has taught the United States and other countries around the world that central banks must be made independent.
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Their wordsBut the elimination of a professional civil service will open up vast new areas for corrupt behavior in every city and county in the United States.
↗Trump Has Revolutionized Executive Powerpersuasion.community 3rd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsAs I’ve argued in previous articles, the government really has become over-constrained in its ability to take action.
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Their wordsMy suspicion is that we will indeed need a specialized regulator, because AI is a sector very different from other parts of the economy.
↗America’s AI Policy Is Truly Chaoticpersuasion.community 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsIt is time to stop talking about whether we need an AI regulator; the dangers are here and now and we need to move quickly.
↗America’s AI Policy Is Truly Chaoticpersuasion.community 2nd of 2 in this piece