How to navigate a political forcing function| Threading the Needle
How to sell the American stack to an uninformed world| Threading the Needle
Retracing the argument for exporting inference capacity| Threading the Needle
No one but America has the leverage to get AI labor policy right| Threading the Needle
Once again, the field is summoning spirits it cannot control| Threading the Needle
AI progress will survive market corrections. But AI policy is overexposed.| Threading the Needle
Reconstructing the doctrine behind US AI foreign policy| Threading the Needle
Four political attractors that could draw the battle lines in the AI-jobs debate.| Threading the Needle
Product-focused regulation falls short of AI's promise and ignores its generality and autonomy. We should pivot to input-based policy.| Threading the Needle
US and Chinese grand strategies are shaping their stances on AI diffusion and exports. The world is failing to pay attention.| Threading the Needle
Simply building compute capacity does not make for a convincing national AI strategy.| Threading the Needle
AI labor impacts will look normal before they look existential. This creates a timing problem for policy development.| Threading the Needle
Why we might not be quite ready to comprehensively regulate AI, and why it matters.| Threading the Needle
AI middle powers underestimate the pace of progress. Global volatility could follow.| Threading the Needle
Political support mounts - for a policy platform that does not yet exist.| Threading the Needle
The Right must find out what 'winning an AI race' means, how much jobs matter, and who to trust.| Threading the Needle
Transparent political opportunism can hurt frontier AI policy on both sides of the aisle.| Threading the Needle
Beyond the shortcomings of centralised control and alignment, a new school of thought on AI governance emerges. It still faces tricky politics.| Threading the Needle
Sophisticated AI predictions fail to affect policy strategy. Changing that requires taking risks.| writing.antonleicht.me
A weekly publication about the political economy of AI. Click to read Threading the Needle, by Anton Leicht, a Substack publication.| writing.antonleicht.me
Making the best of borrowed time| writing.antonleicht.me