{"slug": "a-conservative-case-for-liberal-immigration", "title": "A Conservative Case for Liberal Immigration", "summary": "In a Free Press piece, economist Tyler Cowen argues that liberal immigration policies are essential for American competitiveness, citing that 38 percent of published AI researchers received their undergraduate education in China, with 72 percent of those working in the U.S., and noting that AI leaders such as Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Geoffrey Hinton, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Wojciech Zaremba are immigrants or children of immigrants.", "body_md": "# A Conservative Case for Liberal Immigration\n\nThat is the title of [my latest Free Press piece](https://www.thefp.com/p/tyler-cowen-conservative-case-liberal-immigration-policy?r=10wj&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true), here is one excerpt:\n\nOr look at the AI revolution, another area where America is leading the world and also using its AI models to exert soft power. Dario Amodei of Anthropic has an Italian father, neural-network pioneer Geoffrey Hinton is originally from the U.K., and Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, who helped initially fund and found OpenAI, are from South Africa and Germany, respectively. OpenAI co-founder Wojciech Zaremba is from Poland. Musk and Thiel, of course, have other achievements to their credit as well. A significant portion of the employees at the major labs are Chinese. In\n\n[one survey]of published AI researchers, 38 percent received their undergraduate education in China, and 72 percent of those are working in the U.S.\n\nRecommended, do read the whole thing.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-conservative-case-for-liberal-immigration", "canonical_source": "https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/08/a-conservative-case-for-liberal-immigration.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-conservative-case-for-liberal-immigration", "published_at": "2026-08-15 06:44:46+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-15 07:12:26.125532+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-policy", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Tyler Cowen", "Free Press", "Anthropic", "Dario Amodei", "Geoffrey Hinton", "Elon Musk", "Peter Thiel", "Wojciech Zaremba"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-conservative-case-for-liberal-immigration", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-conservative-case-for-liberal-immigration.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-conservative-case-for-liberal-immigration.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-conservative-case-for-liberal-immigration.jsonld"}}