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The Moonshot
Real sovereign AI has never been tried
Jun 17 • Anton Leicht
Betting on Humans
What to do about AI & jobs
Jun 4 • Anton Leicht and Dean W. Ball

May 2026

Cut Off
Soon, access to frontier AI will be scarce and selective
May 13 • Anton Leicht

April 2026

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
Can You Poach A Frontier Lab?
A realistic roadmap for U.S. allies after the Anthropic crisis
Mar 3 • Anton Leicht

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
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