Politics & AI Policy

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

Press Play To Continue

‘Pausing AI’ is bad policy and worse politics

Mar 31 • Anton Leicht

The Next Three Phases of AI Politics

Narrow windows worth preparing for

Jan 8 • 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

The Night Before Preemption

Three dynamics to watch as the fighting begins

Nov 26, 2025 • Anton Leicht

How To Grow Too Big To Fail

When AI developers overplay their strategic indispensability, they risk undermining pro-AI policy writ large

Nov 19, 2025 • Anton Leicht

AI & Jobs: Leverage without Labor

Would humans flourish under full automation?

Nov 5, 2025 • Anton Leicht

The Devil You Know

A second look at the tech right

Oct 16, 2025 • Anton Leicht

A Preemption Deal Worth Making

Making the best of borrowed time

Oct 8, 2025 • Anton Leicht

Making American AI Export Promotion Work

How to sell the American stack to an uninformed world

Sep 24, 2025 • Anton Leicht

AI & Jobs: Enter Populism?

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

Aug 12, 2025 • Anton Leicht

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