I'm John Batson with Kevin Fraser, and we're about to come to the what can be done

and when and why and where

are the resources. This requires a little history. It turns out that once upon a time there

was a president named Truman, who was restrained from being really angry at the steel industry

because it wanted to go on strike and during a national emergency

or something close to it. This came up again with President Kennedy many years later.

And it turns out the all-powerful executive of the United States Constitution doesn't have the

power to direct a steel mill, let alone AI. Something needs to be done. Did I say that correctly, Kevin?

Yes, you are getting to the heart of the issue, John, which is to say that we've long known

in our constitutional order that we have to afford the president a significant amount of authority

and a sort of energetic spirit, especially when it comes to questions of national security.

But our Constitution outlines a government of limited, enumerated powers.

And that applies to the executive branch as well.

And so from cases like Youngstown Steel, we know that there are limitations on what the president

can do even in matters of significant national and economic

distress. And so it's important that as we hear more people start to think about, hey, what are

the long-term ramifications of AI on the economy, on geopolitics, so on and so forth, that we do

not acquiesce to the sort of temptation for action and therefore

grant the executive branch unconstitutional or perhaps excessive grants of power and instead

make sure we're going through the proper channels, namely through Congress, to get ahead of some

of these public policy concerns so that we can do so on a more

legitimate and enduring basis. You've been writing recently up to this moment about state

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