Walter Russell Mead's interview on U.S. power in the AI era

An interview host says his conversation with Wall Street Journal columnist Walter Russell Mead covers American power, AI and robotics, China, and four traditions of U.S. foreign policy. A listener recommends it to people worried about AI discourse, summarizing Mead's argument as a case that disagreement, competing motives and messiness are not necessarily signs of decline—and may help keep America adaptive and powerful. In that listener's account, the caveat is whether the social fabric can absorb that much stress.