James Samuel Coleman
American sociologist and former president of the American Sociological AssociationWikipedia
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Sep 18, 2026
Thomas ColemanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So I was asleep on the bench, but my brother John was awake and got to go over with my parents to be fingerprinted.
Randa Abdel-FattahHOST
His father, James Coleman, was one of hundreds on the ground demanding change for equality.
Randa Abdel-FattahHOST
A few years later, again over July 4th weekend, a landmark report bearing his name would be published.
Randa Abdel-FattahHOST
It was a massive data dump that would transform the trajectory of American public education for generations to come.
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Randa Abdel-FattahHOST
He's an economist and the faculty director of the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University.
Thomas KaneGUEST
The commissioner of education and his team had to go out and find somebody who had run a big study like this.
Thomas KaneGUEST
And James Coleman was one of the few that had.
Victoria CainGUEST
He is a gifted,
Type III AudioNARRATOR
Thirdly, AI arms race is often shortened to AI race or simply racing, which is clearly the worst analogy of the three, for example because it implies that there'll be a winner rather than everyone potentially losing.
Type III AudioNARRATOR
To elaborate on the analogy at much greater length, I was inspired by James Coleman's Foundations of Social Theory, which presents orderly evacuations versus stampedes as a continuous analogue of cooperating versus defecting in a prisoner's dilemma.
Type III AudioNARRATOR
I particularly like how viscerally we can imagine the gradual build-up of panic in a crowd and how obvious it is that when you're in a stampede your number one priority should be diffusing it.
Type III AudioNARRATOR
However, I don't want to exaggerate how far along in this process the AI industry currently is.
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Rund AbdelfatahHOST
Thomas Coleman can still remember the trip that he took with his father to an amusement park when he was a kid.
Thomas ColemanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Gwynn Oak's amusement park was a little bit on the outskirts of Baltimore, I guess.
Thomas ColemanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It was a small amusement park.
Thomas ColemanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
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Rund AbdelfatahHOST
The all-white park was a 20-minute drive from the family's house in Maryland.
Rund AbdelfatahHOST
His father was a prominent sociologist at Johns Hopkins University.
Rund AbdelfatahHOST
It was July 4th weekend in 1963.