person
Adam Tooze
Columbia historian; Chartbook newsletter
Columbia professor of history; author of 'Crashed' (2018) and 'Shutdown' (2021). Author of the widely-read Chartbook newsletter; frequent commentator on the political economy of AI.
current Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History, Columbia University
Strategy positions
Governance firstendorses
Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimesArgues AI governance is fundamentally a question of macroeconomic and geopolitical strategy; treats the China-U.S. tech competition as the structural frame within which AI policy will be set.
AI is unfolding within a configuration of state power, capital, and infrastructure that is already in motion. Treating it as a free-floating technology to be governed in the abstract misses where the action is.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.