AI Governance · Institutional Design · Public Purpose
Vilas
Dhar
Public intellectual and institutional leader working at the intersection of AI, governance, and democratic authority.
Every major technology that reshaped public life eventually forced a recognition: when a system becomes foundational to how people work, learn, and govern, markets alone cannot determine its course. AI has reached that threshold. The question is whether democratic societies will build institutions capable of directing it toward public purpose. That question sits at the center of my work, my writing, and the $500 million the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation has committed under my leadership.