Politico June 20, 2025
With help from Aaron Mak
Hello, and welcome to our next installment of the Future in Five Questions. This week, we interviewed Amir Husain. He chairs WorldQuant Foundry, a venture lab focused on tech startups, especially those that specialize in commercial space travel, artificial intelligence and biotech. Husain is also the author of the forthcoming book, “The Cybernetic Society: How Humans and Machines Will Shape the Future Together.” He talks with us about the need to decentralize the tech industry, why large language models are being misused, and how a modern take on the GI Bill could help reshape our labor market. An edited and condensed version of the conversation follows:
What’s one underrated big idea?
Decentralization. It is the...
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