Evan Smith

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503 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 27 Jul

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Decoder with Nilay Patel · Tariffs didn’t bring manufacturing jobs back to the US · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

Did we just shoot ourselves in the foot?

It's a fair question.

You and I talked about this on the last one, but I think no matter what, the United States, Europe, the West broadly, and even China in its own way, is having to reckon with the new geopolitical calculus and the new economic security calculus.

And so in a world of disequilibrium,

which we're in, right, you have a rising power and in a world of disequilibrium and in a world where, you know, you don't have a hyper power that can police the entire world and all the maritime shipping lanes and, you know, and all the rest of it, then there is going to be a whole lot more weight placed on economic security, on national security.

You're seeing the weaponization of choke points through the supply chain and global logistics networks.

So it's not theoretical.

It's happening.

We're all reading the same news.

And so back to the border and back to customs, it's like the question, again, is how do we have more security, more enforcement at the same time that we have vibrant trade and growth?

And with all that complexity, I see no other way than to solve it with artificial intelligence.

Altona connects the public and private sectors into a network for managing trade.

So it's a shared map of the world at the underpinning.

So everyone sees the same supply chain network, the same set of facts.

And we actually have a collaboration layer on top of that with AI helping all the parties.

That's connecting government agencies like the U.S.

Customs and Border Protection Agency with now eight of the world's 10 biggest logistics providers who actually move all these goods around the world.

And then Fortune 1000 companies and their suppliers.

So all of these parties are, think about it as kind of hooking into a shared view of the world, a Google Maps for the supply chain, and then transacting with each other to manage trade.

And increasingly, and this is where the servo acquisition we were just speaking to comes in, increasingly agents are working alongside humans in those interactions within an organization and between organizations.

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