Katherine Boyle

Every major communications technology has produced the same instinct.

Control it before it controls you.

The printing press brought fears of heresy.

The internet gave rise to a disinformation apparatus funded in part by the U.S.

government itself.

Sarah B. Rogers inherited that apparatus.

As Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy, she took over an office that had been submitting content removal requests to platforms like Twitter and Meta and funding NGOs to determine what Americans were allowed to see online.

She is now running the opposite operation.

Her argument is also strategic.

Economist Tyler Cowen has written about AI with a Western soul.

AI that reasons individualistically, prioritizes user consent, and operates on rules-based principles.

Rogers believes the proliferation of that AI stack is the most important soft power tool the United States possesses.

This conversation with Sarah B. Rogers, Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy, was recorded at the A16Z American Dynamism Summit in Washington, D.C.,

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