I think that we, poor old oligophrenic ‘homo sapiens’, have been using far too little strategic creativity in many of the big picture discussions we are having about creating ‘value’. That applies especially to public value creation in fundamentally important policy areas such as education, the environment, health care, mobility, etc. But it also applies to the field I am spending most of my time on: foreign, security and defense policy. The new large language models (like GPT-4) may actually prove uniquely helpful in broadening the strategic aperture of these policy debates, but only if we prod them to move beyond their training material.
