I have an article in The Conversation today, about how OpenAI’s journey from idealistic charity to trillion-dollar corporation shows how capitalism and ethics are hard to mix. This is an idea shared by thinkers as diverse as Karl Marx and Milton Friedman – who both argued that capitalists have little room for taking ethical stands, even if they want to. This reveals the need for other, non-market institutions to safeguard the public interest.
The article is here. The Conversation is an interesting project – all its articles are basically opinion pieces, but written by academic experts.
This pairs well with my academic article on capitalism and longtermism.
Nikhil Venkatesh 