person
Ross Douthat
NYT columnist; conservative AI commentator
New York Times opinion columnist whose writing has covered AI from a conservative-religious perspective, focusing on questions of meaning and human dignity.
current Opinion Columnist, The New York Times
Strategy positions
AI skepticmixed
AGI risk narratives overstated; real harms are mundane and currentPushes religious and humanist framings of AI risk; concerned about AI's effect on meaning more than extinction.
The question is not whether AI is dangerous; it's whether we know what we want from it.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.