Ian Bremmer

Because the US is the most powerful country in the world and it is undoing both its role

in a global order that it's set up.

And it's also challenging its own political system.

The level of uncertainty, unpredictability, and for others around the world, unreliability that that presents is really unprecedented.

Well, it's both.

Even though the United States is much more powerful than China, Xi Jinping is much less constrained and much more powerful as an executive authority than President Trump is.

And so there's a reason why the United States felt for generations.

that it benefited from setting up and abiding by a lot of these rules, like free trade architecture and collective security and the promotion of democracy and rule of law.

The fact that the United States is now unilaterally turning against those things will certainly lead to some short-term wins against, say, Venezuela and Nicolas Maduro or Denmark and Greenland.

But in the long term, this is not a strategy for success.

When we talk about solar and wind and nuclear, those are 21st century technologies, the prices of which are coming down exponentially as the technology improves.

And given that that is what's powering not just the ability to feed your population, but also the commanding heights of artificial intelligence, long-term, this is a big and smart strategic bet for the Chinese that the Americans are not competing with.

as you are spending enormous amounts of money on consumer AI and the business model doesn't yet justify it, there's going to be more pressure to commercialize that tech.

And when the tech that's being used is trying to maximize engagement

with the average American.

Essentially, you're going to be testing these AI algorithms real time on the populations of our countries.

You wouldn't do that with a vaccine, even during a pandemic.

You wouldn't do it with genetically modified food, even though people are starving.

And that, I think, is a danger.

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