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Sam Lyman discusses China's alleged targeting of America's AI development and the implications for national security.

Sam Lyman joins me to discuss how China is allegedly targeting America’s AI buildout, the activist networks fighting data centres and why the race for AI infrastructure has become a national security battle. Sam explains how Chinese influence campaigns, open-source AI models, data centre protests and far-left activist groups may be working together to slow the United States down. We discuss Neville Roy Singham, Code Pink, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, foreign influence, anti-data centre campaigns, and how billions of dollars in AI infrastructure have reportedly been delayed or blocked. We also get into open-source AI, DeepSeek, US frontier models, Anthropic, AI export controls, whether AI doom narratives are being used to build regulatory moats, the risk of superintelligence, data centre moratoriums, socialism in America and why Sam believes the battle is now between Chinese AI and American AI. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - China’s AI War 00:00:47 - China Is Sabotaging US AI 00:01:02 - The Bot Campaign Against Data Centres 00:02:03 - Neville Roy Singham 00:03:14 - Why AI Is a…

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Host: Peter McCormack

Guest: Sam Lyman

Topics covered

• China's influence on AI
• American AI infrastructure
• data centre protests
• national security
• open-source AI
• activist networks
• AI export controls

Keywords

• China
• AI
• data centres
• activist networks
• open-source AI
• national security
• influence campaigns
• superintelligence
• regulatory moats

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Code Pink, Party for Socialism and Liberation, DeepSeek, Anthropic

Places: China, United States

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