Pulitzer-winning historian: Sam Altman is now more powerful than Trump Jill Lepore, the Harvard historian who won this year's Pulitzer Prize, made it clear to Vanity Fair: Sam Altman is ultimately a more powerful figure than Donald Trump right now. She claims that the power of the Silicon Valley elites reaches across the globe, and that Trump's own power is "very much on the decline. She compares AI leaders to the medieval church. They present themselves, she says, as guardians of "godlike machines that only they can explain to the world." Her new book, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, came out in August.

Pulitzer-winning historian: Sam Altman is now more powerful than Trump Jill Lepore, the Harvard historian who won this year's Pulitzer Prize, made it clear to Vanity Fair: Sam Altman is ultimately a more powerful figure than Donald Trump right now. She claims that the power of the Silicon Valley elites reaches across the globe, and that Trump's own power is "very much on the decline. She compares AI leaders to the medieval church. They present themselves, she says, as guardians of "godlike machines that only they can explain to the world." Her new book, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, came out in August.