By Sasha Gong, published by American Greatness
AI keeps advancing whether America pauses or not.
While open societies cycle through apocalyptic fears that stall infrastructure and frontier work, China treats AI, energy, and rule-making as instruments of power and will keep going, argues journalist Sasha Gong. Democratic caution, she says, is a strength only if it produces safeguards—testing, cybersecurity, energy accountability—rather than paralysis. If the United States treats local vetoes and moratoriums as a nationwide halt, it repeats the nuclear and climate pattern of self-constraint that rivals exploit.
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