AI Policy & Regulation

Sam Altman Advocates Public Sovereign Wealth Model for AI Expansion

OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman has proposed transferring a corporate equity stake in leading artificial intelligence developers to a federal public wealth fund. Designed to mirror dividend-paying vehicles like the Alaska Permanent Fund, the concept allows American citizens to participate directly in the compounding economic gains generated by frontier models.

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AI & Society

UChicago Bans AI in Class. Alpha School Bets Bigger

Two education models are placing opposite bets on the same technology this fall: the University of Chicago is banning AI from its core undergraduate courses, while Alpha School is expanding its AI-driven, largely teacher-free model to roughly 50 campuses nationwide.

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AI in Africa

AI Didn't Create Africa's Fraud Problem. It Sped It Up

INTERPOL says AI is now linked to 55% of reported cybercrime across Africa, with losses more than doubling to $484 million in a single year. The real story isn't that AI is new to fraud — it's that everything else was already too slow to keep up with it.

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