# Walter Lippmann **Entity class:** Person **Domain:** Public thought / artificial intelligence / governance **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Walter Lippmann** is a American writer and political commentator whose work in this corpus is relevant to public opinion, expertise and the limits of mass democratic judgment. ## Article Context [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]] uses a source-attributed statement from The Phantom Public (1925) as an independent intellectual object inside its analysis of public competence, technological risk and AI transition governance. The quotation is preserved as that speaker's position rather than treated as Bryant McGill's voice. ## Relationships - [[wiki/AI Transition Governance|AI Transition Governance]] - [[wiki/Public Epistemic Capacity|Public Epistemic Capacity]] - [[wiki/AI Risk Communication|AI Risk Communication]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > “The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.” > **— Walter Lippmann**, *The Phantom Public, 1925* [[reminders/Civilization/The Public Must Be Put in Its Place by Walter Lippmann|The Public Must Be Put in Its Place by Walter Lippmann]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]] — article context and complete attribution.