Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Robert Wright talks with China tech expert Paul Triolo about the US push to maintain AI dominance over China—and the lack of planning behind it.

Triolo explains how the Biden administration’s export controls on AI chips and tools were rolled out without a cost-benefit analysis, breaking from long-standing Commerce Department practice. They discuss the risks of an unexamined AI cold war, the economic fallout, and what smarter tech policy might look like.