In a world where human AI developers still are needed for frontier AI development, blocking non-US citizens from access is bad for the US competitively. In a RSI world, it is irrelevant. Maybe we should be thankful the current mess happened now and not in a few months.
Indeed, in a RSI world state capture of leading companies becomes much easier since it is much more about controlling legal and infrastructure underpinnings than wilful humans. Unfortunately, I suspect ability to control the process would be much weakened.
In a world where human AI developers still are needed for frontier AI development, blocking non-US citizens from access is bad for the US competitively. In a RSI world, it is irrelevant. Maybe we should be thankful the current mess happened now and not in a few months.