Ben Rhodes

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12,021 appearances 36 recordings 12 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 3d ago

Ben Rhodes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Pod Save the World · Xi’s Just Not That Into You · 23 Sep 2026 podcast

The data center issue is the one that's gotten a lot of attention here in the U.S. matched

It's almost treated as a domestic issue involving tech companies. matched

And yet, one of the justifications for plowing ahead with unregulated AI is that we're in some race to the death with China over it. matched

Xi Jinping's going to be with Trump this week. matched

Presumably AI will be on the agenda. matched

What do you see in the data about matched

voter concerns about artificial intelligence? matched

And how do you kind of unpack the discordance that people might feel about wanting to compete with China, but wanting to slow down AI? matched

Yeah, I mean, it's interesting to me that, look, the tariff issue and the war issue are pretty straightforward for Democrats, right? matched

Like, this war is dumb. matched

We shouldn't have fought it. matched

We should end it. matched

These trade wars are dumb. matched

They raise prices. matched

AI is obviously a more complicated thing. matched

It is striking to me, Mara, and I'm curious what you think, because, again, you worked on AI issues in the Biden administration before. matched

when you guys were starting to put some guardrails around this stuff before Trump dismantled them, that in the conversations I'm in about AI and that I think you're in, you know, the national security concerns are actually quite acute. matched

You know, like someone could build a biological weapon with AI, the cyber risks, you know, particularly with this chat GPT hugging face incident where the AI agents like escaped human control and were hacking into the internet and stuff. matched

The chance of a massive cyber disruption is enormous. matched

There are these autonomous weapons that use AI for targeting. matched

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