Tech & national security. @AEI Senior Fellow.
Washington, DC
Joined February 2013
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"Because we may not be able to deny adversaries a capable offensive AI tool, we must make them afraid to use it." My latest @TheDispatch:
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WHAAAAAAAAT?! 😆
"The European Commission has rolled out an alternative to Microsoft Teams — but officials using it aren't impressed, with one describing the tool as 'absolute sh*t.'”
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The “pacing AI” question is complex and deserves more serious discussion than it’s getting right now.
One observation I haven’t heard much — the ADMIN clearly opposes pacing. But it’s also enacted a rigorous review process for advanced AI models where the gov determines if those models can be safely deployed and, if so, who can use them. This is a de facto licensing regime and has the net effect of “pacing” the capabilities of publicly available models.
It’s technically voluntary, but there’s a clear gov expectation that all advanced US labs participate — and they do.
So maybe this isn’t simply “Doomers looking for regulatory capture” vs “Accelerators protecting free market innovation.”
Maybe we’ve already agreed that we need to be very careful and very smart about how we proceed, and we’re negotiating how best to do that? Maybe we start there as we have this conversation?
Klon Kitchen retweeted
NEW: Dispatch Podcast on the rapidly intensifying AI debate -- what's real, what's hyperbole and how do we tell the difference? With @JonahDispatch, @MichaelRWarren and @klonkitchen.
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I joined @stephenfhayes, @JonahDispatch & @MichaelRWarren to discuss last week’s AI developments. You don’t have to believe the world is going to end to take these concerns seriously.
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Narrator: But instead, they chose obsolescence.
Excellent OpEd in the FT by Mario Draghi arguing that (1) without higher productivity Europe cannot sustain our social model; (2) that AI is our best possibility to do that; (3) that dependence on US and China makes this hard for sovereignty.
He proposes building up European compute, using our data advantage, and pooling corporate demand to finance it.
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“Data centers represent the best opportunity in generations for blue-collar workers to attain a portion of the American dream. A decade ago, members of my union, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 26, in the Washington, D.C., region, worked about 14 million hours annually. In 2025, we worked 28 million hours, and we’ll most likely top 33 million hours this year. We brought in 600 new apprentices last year alone. That job growth happened because data centers came to Northern Virginia and our members went to work constructing and maintaining them.”
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American companies using PRC AI models to "secure" their networks, is like asking a bear to guard your picnic -- sure, it's capable but it's also going to eat your lunch!
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The EU is using fines against U.S. tech firms as a budget line item. The timing of last week's DMA enforcement wave isn't a coincidence. It's a revenue strategy dressed up as regulation.
That's not a rules-based order. That's a shakedown with a Brussels letterhead.
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Today, Ambassador Greer issued a statement regarding the European Union's recent actions that create uncertainty in the Turnberry Agreement.
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The EU's latest DMA actions also don't just raise trade questions. They raise security ones.
Why should any platform transfer billions of personal data points (i.e. search queries, rankings, results) to foreign rivals every week? Why should "read-write" access to microphones and screen content be mandatory? Why should compliance require operating against your own security architecture, opening the door to malware and data theft?
The EU's own cybersecurity agency says security fundamentals matter more than ever in the AI age. Brussels is requiring exactly the opposite.
The White House is calling for a 301 investigation and additional tariffs in response to the EU's latest actions against U.S. companies. Good.
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"The United States of America is not a “PIGGYBANK” for Europe, nor will we allow it to be! Please let this TRUTH serve to represent that we will immediately initiate a 301 Investigation into the practice of “ROBBING” American Companies and, in turn, the American Taxpayer." - President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸
The App Store Accountability Act is trying to solve a real problem. Kids are getting hammered by content and apps no parent signed up for, and the existing controls don't work. I get the impulse (I have four kids).
But the bill makes the problem worse, not better. Here's why.
AI is collapsing the cost of offensive cyber operations. Spear-phishing at machine speed. Autonomous intrusion. The defender's edge is shrinking fast.
In that world, a centralized database of every American child's verified identity isn't a safeguard. It's a target.
@EUCouncil Competition Chief Ribera says Brussels will "talk" to Washington about digital rules—but won't change them. "We cannot be subject to the will of a third country." That's not dialogue. That's a closed door with a press release taped to it. 🧵
The DMA and DSA aren't hypothetical. They're enforced, fines are accruing, and U.S. firms are absorbing discriminatory costs in real time. Every month USTR waits is a month Europe operates without consequence. That's not patience—that's subsidy.