Sam Lyman joins me to discuss how China is allegedly targeting America’s AI buildout, the activist networks fighting data centres and why the race for AI infrastructure has become a national security battle.
Sam explains how Chinese influence campaigns, open-source AI models, data centre protests and far-left activist groups may be working together to slow the United States down. We discuss Neville Roy Singham, Code Pink, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, foreign influence, anti-data centre campaigns, and how billions of dollars in AI infrastructure have reportedly been delayed or blocked.
We also get into open-source AI, DeepSeek, US frontier models, Anthropic, AI export controls, whether AI doom narratives are being used to build regulatory moats, the risk of superintelligence, data centre moratoriums, socialism in America and why Sam believes the battle is now between Chinese AI and American AI.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - China’s AI War
00:00:47 - China Is Sabotaging US AI
00:01:02 - The Bot Campaign Against Data Centres
00:02:03 - Neville Roy Singham
00:03:14 - Why AI Is a Battle for Control
00:04:18 - China’s Open-Source AI Strategy
00:06:12 - What Americans Fear About AI
00:08:23 - Sam’s Background at Treasury and BPI
00:10:38 - Is Data Centre Opposition Organic?
00:12:32 - The China Influence Network
00:13:37 - What Is Code Pink?
00:16:10 - The Party for Socialism and Liberation
00:18:52 - How Data Centre Protests Slow AI
00:23:37 - $24 Billion in AI Buildout Stalled
00:27:55 - Why China Wants to Slow US AI
00:29:12 - Chinese AI or American AI
00:32:03 - Is Chinese AI Harvesting Data?
00:36:37 - The US Enters the Open-Source Race
00:42:52 - The AI Doomer Debate
00:54:17 - The Push for Data Centre Moratoriums
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