Dr. Jill Lepore

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Decoder with Nilay Patel · Dr. Jill Lepore on why the AI backlash is vital for the future · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

Or public schools.

Like, I just...

Institutions, not just individuals, have to have positions of moral integrity in this moment.

And I don't see a ton of evidence of that.

You see it maybe in the publishing industry.

It's very self-interested, but I think you see it in some state governments and some local governments.

But I don't think you see it in big law firms, big universities, universities.

I gave these lectures at Yale last year that are the basis for this book on the artificial state and had a lot of like group meetings with Yale students.

And I had been told by a colleague that the very first meeting of the AI task force, which the faculty thought was going to be about, like, what should our pedagogical position be about?

Like, we're going to use this task force to deliberate on what's the proper time and place for using these incredibly powerful tools.

And then what are places that are maybe not good places?

And he was like, well, the first meeting of the task force was, how can we brand AI at Yale so that it's really sexy and people are excited about it?

Like, are we going to call it Yay-I?

Like, what's the branding strategy here?

And the faculty were like, what are you actually talking about?

Like, you brought us here to have a branding conversation?

So at this lecture, so I'm in a lecture hall with this wonderful group of students.

And so I said, like, what about I like, let's just do like, let's just have a good discussion now.

Like, what about just having there be like a two week moratorium starting tomorrow?

The president of the university could announce it tonight that for two weeks, like every class on campus is going to be a discussion section involving staff and faculty and students of like, what's our, what should our community policy be about using this tool this year?

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