As part of their effort to achieve AI dominance, the Trump administration has launched

the new Manhattan Project, pouring billions of dollars into AI research and infrastructure.

DailyWire senior editor Cabot Phillips recently debuted a new documentary on that AI arms race.

He joins us now. I'm DailyWire, executive editor

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So we'll talk about your new documentary in a second, but first, tell us about the administration's

efforts to boost AI development.

Yeah, so as AI has burst onto the scene in recent years, most of the development

has been happening in the private sector. It's Silicon Valley companies, it's OpenAI, Google,

Microsoft, all the big players. But the Trump administration is now saying, hey, we want in on this.

We want to help what you guys are doing. And they're adamant that the AI arms race is really

a national security issue, similar to the AI arms race is really a national security

issue, similar to the nuclear arms race or the space race that was going on back in the 50s and 60s.

And they're now viewing AI development in the U.S. as similar to the Manhattan Project during World War II,

this idea of, hey, if the Soviets or someone else is to get a nuclear bomb

before us, it's going to shift the entire global balance of power. And they're now feeling that

way with AI of, hey, if China or Russia becomes the AI leader, we're going to fall behind. It's going to

have huge consequences. And so now Trump is clear that he wants the federal government playing

a huge role here, if nothing else, for national

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