What Yascha Mounk thinks about optimism

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Writer and academic on the crisis of democracy and the defence of liberal values; professor of the practice of international affairs at Johns Hopkins, founder of Persuasion and host of The Good Fight.

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1. 31 Jul 2025

   Our readingThe importance of artificial intelligence is currently being underhyped.

   Their wordsIntellectually, I have become deeply convinced that the importance of AI is, if anything, underhyped.

   ↗The Peculiar Persistence of the AI Denialistswriting.yaschamounk.com 3rd of 3 in this piece