Episode notes
On April 29th, the US Senate hosted a panel on the "existential threat" of AI and two of the four panelists worked for the Chinese government. One month earlier, Bernie Sanders and AOC introduced legislation imposing a federal moratorium on American AI data centers. On Bitcoin Policy Hour EP 38, Zack Cohen, Ken Egan, and Zack Shapiro unpack a new Bitcoin Policy Institute report by Sam Lyman exposing the CCP influence operation steering US AI policy. They also cover the Clarity Act vote in Senate Banking, the BRCA fight, and the Digital Asset Parity Act.
Sam Lyman's BPI Report: https://www.btcpolicy.org/articles/foreign-influence-in-the-campaign-against-american-ai
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CHAPTERS
00:00 — Cold Open: The Game Theory of AGI and Why It's Already Inevitable
00:37 — Inside the Senate Panel That Platformed CCP Officials on US AI Policy
06:43 — Zack Shapiro on Why This Is a Foreign Influence Operation, Not a Debate
12:12 — Campus Backlash, NIMBYism, and the Misinformation Fueling Anti-AI Sentiment
22:22 — Recursive Self-Improvement, AI Doom Risk, and the Limits of Regulation
28:15 — US vs China: Closed Frontier Models vs Open Source and the Compute Race
35:32 — Power Is the Real Bottleneck: Gas Turbines, SMRs, and the Dyson Swarm Endgame
42:32 — Infinite Demand for Inference, the AI Bubble, and the Coming IPO Wave
48:39 — Clarity Act Passes Senate Banking 15-9: What Survives the Floor Vote
51:28 — BRCA Under Threat, Digital Asset Parity Act, and Final Call to Action
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