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AI, Sovereignty, and the Coming Fracture of Silicon Valley

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Dave Friedman
May 28, 2025
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This essay serves as a companion piece to my recent essay speculating about what AI looks like if J.D. Vance wins the 2028 presidential election. It is necessarily speculative, but if AI follows the course of other dual-use technologies, and all indications are that it will, then the speculation that follows below is directionally correct.

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