AI is going to be more important, not less important.

And so the proliferation of a Western AI stack

to be a top priority for anyone who cares about freedom.

The rules around AI are changing fast.

There's a lot of regulation abroad around digital safety

and misinformation that's in some ways becoming the petri dish

for lobbying groups and organizations in America to bring that here.

I think when we send signals in this policy domain, they should be signals that are consistent

with free speech.

The economist, Haller Cowan, talks about AI with a Western soul.

And I completely agree with him that that is the greatest soft power tool we can possess.

How can the U.S. government encourage private sector to encourage free speech at their

companies,

even if they don't have the ability to buy a company like Elon does and quit his fingerprint?

I think we need to...

Every major communications technology has produced the same instinct.

Control it before it controls you.

The printing press brought fears of heresy.

The internet gave rise to a disinformation apparatus funded in part by the U.S. government

itself.

Sarah B. Rogers inherited that apparatus.

As Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, she took over an office that had been submitting

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