Jill Lepore on the ‘Artificial State’ and why Silicon Valley’s leaders are bad sci-fi readers

Historian Jill Lepore argues that tech companies often employ soaring language to describe their products, as if they are forming a new government. She cites examples such as Twitter’s former “town hall in your pocket” and Anthropic’s Claude constitution, critiquing Silicon Valley leaders for their poor sci‑fi reading. Her upcoming book, “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,” expands on this theory.

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