Threading the Needle

Send Them In

How independent oversight can help govern AI takeoff today

13 hrs ago • Anton Leicht

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August 2026

Escape Velocity

A first look at the political economy of space compute

Aug 25 • Anton Leicht

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Locked Down

Most AI policy will be about doing securitisation well

Aug 5 • Anton Leicht

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July 2026

The Flood

AI safety money could save American AI politics. As it stands, it won’t.

Jul 13 • Anton Leicht

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June 2026

The Moonshot

Real sovereign AI has never been tried

Jun 17 • Anton Leicht

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Betting on Humans

What to do about AI & jobs

Jun 4 • Anton Leicht and Dean W. Ball

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May 2026

Cut Off

Soon, access to frontier AI will be scarce and selective

May 13 • Anton Leicht

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April 2026

Seductive Salience

AI politics will be about politics, not AI

Apr 29 • Anton Leicht

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Failing the Future

In search of better AI accelerationism

Apr 15 • Anton Leicht

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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 stepwise 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

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