How Trump’s executive order surrenders the global ‘AI’ brand to Beijing

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When American policy adopts the lexicon of apocalyptic fiction, it does not calm the public; it surrenders the dominant narrative to China. It can be fixed with one word.

For weeks, the narrative that “AI will kill you” dominated global news, sparked by a tech researcher and aligning with a 2014 publication, “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies,” regarding existential risk.

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