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Ben Buchanan Wants the U.S. to Win on AI. But Is It a Race or a Trap?

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Our guest this week is Ben Buchanan, who served as President Biden’s senior advisor on AI and helped write the first federal AI policy, including the original export controls on GPUs going to China. He is one of the world’s foremost experts on AI governance, and he had a seat at the table at the historic Geneva Summit…

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