AI and the Crisis of ‘Classical Liberalism’

This week, the American Enterprise Institute’s new Council on AI Ethics released a “founding document” outlining its principles and goals in the pages of The New Atlantis. The body’s creation responded to an earlier call by AEI fellow M. Anthony Mills for a “President’s Council on AI,” modeled on the W. Bush-era President’s Council on Bioethics. The Trump White House has not established such an entity, so AEI decided to take the initiative and convene a group of mostly socially conservative thinkers to explore “the deepest questions AI is raising about human meaning and purpose.”