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Escape Velocity
A first look at the political economy of space compute
Aug 25
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Anton Leicht
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Locked Down
Most AI policy will be about doing securitisation well
Aug 5
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Anton Leicht
1
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July 2026
The Flood
AI safety money could save American AI politics. As it stands, it won’t.
Jul 13
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Anton Leicht
6
June 2026
The Moonshot
Real sovereign AI has never been tried
Jun 17
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Anton Leicht
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Betting on Humans
What to do about AI & jobs
Jun 4
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Anton Leicht
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Dean W. Ball
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10
May 2026
Cut Off
Soon, access to frontier AI will be scarce and selective
May 13
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Anton Leicht
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April 2026
Seductive Salience
AI politics will be about politics, not AI
Apr 29
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Anton Leicht
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Failing the Future
In search of better AI accelerationism
Apr 15
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Anton Leicht
1
March 2026
Press Play To Continue
‘Pausing AI’ is bad policy and worse politics
Mar 31
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Anton Leicht
1
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Can You Poach A Frontier Lab?
A stepwise roadmap for U.S. allies after the Anthropic crisis
Mar 3
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Anton Leicht
1
6
February 2026
The Delhi Gap
Billions of people or trillions of dollars are catastrophically wrong
Feb 25
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Anton Leicht
3
What AI Summits Are For
The best international AI policy is to fix national strategies
Feb 16
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Anton Leicht
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