Intellectuals Dislocated by Technology

Academic and literary intellectuals increasingly lack the technical foothold needed to plausibly claim they can 'speak for the future' because rapid advances in science and engineering have pushed the decisive knowledge frontier outside their traditional expertise. That civic gap helps explain current anti‑AI panic among professors and undermines which voices policymakers consult on high‑tech governance. — It reframes debates over who should shape AI, technology and security policy—from literary/intellectual authority toward hybrid technical‑policy expertise—and warns that relying on traditional intellectual prestige risks policy mistakes.