Sam Altman Sam Altman of OpenAI showed human humility, compassion and optimism at Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California last night: AI is a tool, like a calculator or a search engine. Humans can and should steer it to make our lives better. #innovationwithimpact

Dedication: To the unsung innovators whose products make our lives better every day: comfortable office chairs, electric scooters and microwavable dishware to name a few.

To our students, including our executive education clients, who strive individually so that we can thrive collectively.

To our spouses, who teach us how to become the people that you think we can be, which is higher than what we would or could envision for ourselves.

And who let us sit endlessly in the comfortable chairs to write, ride the electric scooters to work at dawn, and ignore how much microwaveable food we eat when you’re not looking.

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Will #AI change our conception of our own #dignity? forbes.com/sites/tedladd/…

Denzel Washington is the Perfect Entrepreneur in Gladiator II at forbes.com/sites/tedladd/…

Will Wyoming Be The Next Ukraine? open.substack.com/pub/tedladd/p/…

Legalized Bribery Hurts American Companies and Consumers. Defunding the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act robs American companies of their best asset: their reputations. tedladd.substack.com/p/legalized-br…

Meta pirated my work for its AI. I am not (too) angry because I want others to read it. I'm just... so disappointed. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Legalized Bribery Hurts American Companies and Consumers. Defunding the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act robs American companies of their best asset: their reputations. tedladd.substack.com/p/legalized-br… theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Since bribery of foreigners is now permissible by an executive order from the White House, can large American companies now openly hire smugglers to avoid tariffs? open.substack.com/pub/tedladd/p/…

AI innovation requires consistent collaboration between human and institutional customers and providers, says Dr Priyanka Shrivastava forbes.com/sites/tedladd/…

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How America Went Off the Rails: A sobering inventory of decline—foreign threats, domestic folly, and the unraveling of national cohesion, authored by my father. open.substack.com/pub/tedladd/p/…

Democracy in Wyoming: A Dad on the Campaign Trail [Reprinted from 2005] tedladd.substack.com/p/democracy-in…

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Traditional companies are building internal multi-sided platforms to solve recurring business problems, including inefficient transactions, innovation bottlenecks, evolving customer demands, underutilized data, and poor strategic insights. forbes.com/sites/tedladd/…

Skeptical Intelligence filters and improves AI for our lives and businesses. forbes.com/sites/tedladd/…