Exporting Advanced Chips Is Good for Nvidia, Not the US

The White House is betting that hardware sales will buy software loyalty — a strategy borrowed from 5G that misunderstands how AI actually works.

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Dec 15, 2025
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Exporting Advanced Chips Is Good for Nvidia, Not the US

The White House is betting that hardware sales will buy software loyalty — a strategy borrowed from 5G that misunderstands how AI actually works.

Dec 15, 2025

AI Could Undermine Emerging Economies

AI automation threatens to erode the “development ladder,” a foundational economic pathway that has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty.

Dec 11, 2025

The Evidence for AI Consciousness, Today

A growing body of evidence means it’s no longer tenable to dismiss the possibility that frontier AIs are conscious.

Dec 8, 2025

AI Alignment Cannot Be Top-Down

Community Notes offers a better model — where citizens, not corporations, decide what “aligned” means.

Nov 3, 2025

AGI's Last Bottlenecks

A new framework suggests we’re already halfway to AGI. The rest of the way will mostly require business-as-usual research and engineering.

AI Will Be Your Personal Political Proxy

By learning our views and engaging on our behalf, AI could make government more representative and responsive — but not if we allow it to erode our democratic instincts.

Is China Serious About AI Safety?

China’s new AI safety body brings together leading experts — but faces obstacles to turning ambition into influence.

AI Deterrence Is Our Best Option

A response to critiques of Mutually Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM).

Summary of “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies”

An overview of the core arguments in Yudkowsky and Soares’s new book.

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