Robinson Meyer
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first heard Jul 2026
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and Europe agreed on something and they were allies, then everyone else wanted to work with them.
I'm vastly simplifying, obviously.
I think what makes this moment different is that when we're talking about Silicon Valley,
demanding no restrictions on its growth, often demanding government support for whatever its leaders want to do, that is made in direct comparison to China, right?
I mean, and the fact that the U.S.
is now under competitive pressure, I think, is driving a lot of the elite decisions here and I think also makes China
any kind of global governance of these technologies, I don't know, both easier and harder to imagine.
Easier in that if we are going to a bipolar world where it's the US and China have frontier labs and frontier AI capabilities, and if those two governments agree on reining in their technological development, their innovation, their work on AI in certain ways, I think that actually does enable governance.
And I can see a future US administration
regulating AI or pursuing some kind of bilateral agreement with China or trilateral with China and the EU, reigning in AI in some ways.
I think when we talk about a national movement to reign in Silicon Valley or to reign in the tech industry or to convert the NIMBY energy around AI into something more enduring, something more like the environmental movement,
where I'm skeptical is not actually around the public's appetite for this, but around the repeated failure of movements in recent history to build anything enduring on that scale.
We've seen many, many moments over the past 15 years.
Climate change, I would say, is one of them where it seems like there is building public anger, even cross-partisan anger, or building public support for a certain policy outcome.
And for whatever reason, because publics are fickle, because...
people get distracted and move on it's just because i think there's something about this moment in media in public attention in civics that makes it very hard to create sustained public focus on problems in a way that builds the level of the environmental movement or builds the level of the civil rights movement and that makes me doubtful that
this will turn into something as enduring.
If that's the main thing on the table, no.
What I would like to see is closer to a policy where we take the immense amount of investment that companies want to do in data centers.
We then point that investment maybe with an excise tax, maybe with some kind of fund.
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