David Wallace-Wells

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599 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 12 Aug

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The Opinions · A.I. Hype Is Running Into Reality · 12 Aug 2026 podcast

But at the level of like ideology and shaping the medium-term future of the economy, if it is the case or becomes the case that the Trump administration overall, the AI industry as a sector, if those, if we see much more openness to this tech.

Where does that lead us?

Like what is the

we've been talking for years about this as an existential Cold War level threat, our race with China.

Now we're like maybe we should just be able to do that.

Actually, China sounds

It's like we used to talk about that those risks so much.

the bioterrorists.

sometimes they'll say that.

they'll say don't touch

been a really interesting story of this eighteen months of the Trump administration.

They came in, they seemed like they were technological accelerationists.

They wanted to like rip off all the and they've made a pretty serious evolution, even just in this year and a half that they've been in power and are now they're not like, you know, on the safeties end of the AI safety spectrum, but they

Yeah, I mean, one aspect of the China US contrast that's always been interesting to me is that, you know, the US is spending much more money here than any other country in the world in the build out.

Um, but we're also a country that's really um anxious about AI.

Yeah.

In China, you know, they're kind of in second place.

The country's much less anxious.

For you know, and there are a lot of things going into that, but one of them I've always thought is that they trust that their government is capable of taking control of their economy.

And here in America, we basically But that raises the last thing I wanna ask you before we move on to the um the bleak part of the conversation.

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