It doesn't take much skill to game this out and see where we're going if we keep this up.
Kneecap our own companies. Gate everything. Let regulatory capture and fear mongering win. Have our people and companies beg for access to models from AI labs and Big Daddy government.
It spells the end of our competitiveness, destroys trust, wrecks our economy, destroys beneficial second order effects and gift wraps a turbo booster for China, their economy, and their tech stack.
I have never seen such short-sightedness and stupidity in the county I love more than anything in my entire fifty years.
And I've never seen more morons pushing for this and cheering it on.
We've got to wake the hell up fast.
What happens if American AI labs can't compete with Chinese labs? You can regulate US labs all you want, you can ban Americans from using open source software, you can do all sorts of counterproductive things, and all of them will just enhance Chinese competitiveness.
The Chinese already build their own AIs, already have their own chip fabs, and will happily sell their AI systems around the world, and those systems will reflect Chinese values. They'll accelerate past us if we kneecap ourselves because they won't; they'll grab market share while we argue with ourselves, they'll do engineering and software and hardware development faster than us, and all because they won't be handcuffed and we will.
Eventually that will translate into not just a political and economic advantage but also an overwhelming military advantage.
The only way Western values survive all of this is if the US policy makers recognize that.
