Siliconsciousness: Can the US Maintain Its Edge in AI?

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Both the Biden and Trump administrations have focused on keeping the US’s competitive edge in AI. But can we really keep our edge forever, or is DeepSeek just the first sign that China is catching up — and fast? Host of The AI Policy Podcast Gregory Allen joins David Rothkopf to break down the global race for AI dominance. This material is distributed by TRG Advisory Services, LLC on behalf of the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates in the U.S.. Additional information is available at the Department of Justice, Washington, DC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.7	Welcome to CILA Consciousness, the DSR Network podcast focusing on the artificial intelligence revolution, politics and policy.
1:06.6	Hello and welcome to CILA consciousness. I'm David Rothkoff, your host, and this week, as every week we'll be looking at some dimension of what's going on in AI.
1:15.9	Today we are extremely fortunate to have with us Gregory Allen. Gregory is the director of the Watwani AI Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies here in Washington.
1:30.1	And he is also the host of the AI Policy Podcast, which sounds like we're kind of covering
1:38.6	some of the same stuff on a weekly basis. And I admire the work that you've been doing, and I'm really glad that we could
1:47.8	have this chance to talk. Welcome.
1:49.4	Hey, well, thanks so much for having me on.
1:52.0	There are a lot to talk about, but I think, you know, let's just baseline this thing.
1:57.1	I know you, you know, start like the first week in November, you did a podcast, you know,
2:02.1	what is the Trump administration and AI policy going to be? And you've been on that story for a bit.
2:08.6	And so have we, and here we are, it's March. And I'm still not sure. Because it's a little
2:16.9	schizophrenic as far as I can see it. There is an impulse
2:20.6	among some of the folks from the tech community to say, leave us alone and just let us do our thing.
2:26.9	And then there's an impulse from some of the folks in the tech community saying, please do us
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