Threading the Needle

Seductive Salience

AI politics will be about politics, not AI

Apr 29 • Anton Leicht

Failing the Future

In search of better AI accelerationism

Apr 15 • Anton Leicht

March 2026

Press Play To Continue

‘Pausing AI’ is bad policy and worse politics

Mar 31 • Anton Leicht

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Can You Poach A Frontier Lab?

A realistic roadmap for U.S. allies after the Anthropic crisis

Mar 3 • Anton Leicht

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February 2026

The Delhi Gap

Billions of people or trillions of dollars are catastrophically wrong.

Feb 25 • Anton Leicht

What AI Summits Are For

The best international AI policy is to fix national strategies

Feb 16 • Anton Leicht

Import Imperatives

How and why middle powers should import frontier AI systems

Feb 6 • Anton Leicht

January 2026

How AI Safety Is Getting Middle Powers Wrong

The case for pivoting from global governance to national interests

Jan 22 • Anton Leicht

The Next Three Phases of AI Politics

Narrow windows worth preparing for

Jan 8 • Anton Leicht

December 2025

Forging a Pax Silica

Can the Western alliance be rebuilt on techno-strategical leverage?

Dec 17, 2025 • Anton Leicht

Anthropic Against Itself

The frontier AI lab can be a neutral authority, a policy advocate, or a political renegade. But it can no longer be all three.

Dec 5, 2025 • Anton Leicht

November 2025

The Night Before Preemption

Three dynamics to watch as the fighting begins

Nov 26, 2025 • Anton Leicht