Threading the Needle

The Devil You Know

A second look at the tech right

22 hrs ago • 

Anton Leicht

A Preemption Deal Worth Making

Making the best of borrowed time

Oct 8 • 

Anton Leicht

AI & Child Safety: Against Narrow Solutions

How to navigate a political forcing function

Oct 1 • 

Anton Leicht

September 2025

Making American AI Export Promotion Work

How to sell the American stack to an uninformed world

Sep 24 • 

Anton Leicht

A Strategic Case for H20 Chip Exports

Retracing the argument for exporting inference capacity

Sep 17 • 

Anton Leicht

4

AI, Jobs, and the Rest of the World

No one but America has the leverage to get AI labor policy right

Sep 9 • 

Anton Leicht

4

Don’t Build An AI Safety Movement

Once again, the field is summoning spirits it cannot control

Sep 3 • 

Anton Leicht

9

August 2025

Bubble Politics

AI progress will survive market corrections. But AI policy is overexposed.

Aug 27 • 

Anton Leicht

5

Mercantilist AI Policy

Reconstructing the doctrine behind US AI foreign policy

Aug 20 • 

Anton Leicht

7

AI & Jobs: Enter Populism?

Four political attractors that could draw the battle lines in the AI-jobs debate.

Aug 12 • 

Anton Leicht

2

AI Is Not A Product

Product-focused regulation falls short of AI's promise and ignores its generality and autonomy. We should pivot to input-based policy.

Aug 4 • 

Anton Leicht

July 2025

AI Grand Strategy & The Rest of the World

US and Chinese grand strategies are shaping their stances on AI diffusion and exports. The world is failing to pay attention.

Jul 23 • 

Anton Leicht