Wrangling With Explosive Growth Harvard Kennedy School Policy Review

My piece in the Harvard Kennedy School Student Policy review was published here https://studentreview.hks.harvard.edu/wrangling-with-explosive-ai-growth/. I argue that while the pace of AI development can feel unprecedented and unsettling, periods of rapid, seemingly unconstrained technological growth are not new. The Industrial Revolution and the Information Age both triggered anxiety, disruption, and real harm alongside extraordinary gains. Looking at how societies responded to those transitions offers useful lessons for how we can govern, adapt to, and benefit from today’s AI acceleration without assuming that fear or fatalism are our only options.