The Balance of AI Power: Anton Leicht on Politics, Pacing Deals, and Muddling Through Well
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In this podcast episode, Anton Leicht from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace discusses how political and institutional power can be preserved as AI advances.
He explores strategic trade-offs of frontier training pauses, challenges to industry self-regulation, and how middle powers can exchange data center capacity and semiconductor leverage for access to AI models. Leicht emphasizes that preventing monopolization of control by private labs or single governments is as critical as managing risks from powerful AI systems.
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