This piece originally appeared in Lawfare.
Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) “foundation models” capabilities have brought conversations about AI to the forefront of global discourse. With a few exceptions, innovation in AI has been driven by, or is dependent on, American industry, science, infrastructure, and capital. Palantir’s CEO recently characterized this dominance in remarks at the Reagan National Defense Forum: “America is in the very beginning of a revolution that we own. The AI revolution. We own it. It should basically be called the U.S. AI revolution.”
