Dan Jeffries: AI panic and overregulation could end the American century
Dan_Jeffries1 · x · 2026-09-13
Tech author Dan Jeffries argues the US is in an orchestrated fear campaign against AI, aimed at minting East India Company-style monopolies "for our own good." His core frame: AI is a normal technology, not magic. He outlines three dystopian outcomes: bloated incumbent-favoring bureaucracy pushing innovation overseas (like China leapfrogging credit cards), an Orwellian MIRI-style regime of researcher tracking and GPU surveillance that slows everything from safer driving to disease cures, or a second de-industrialization as industrialists flee to friendlier nations. He concludes this self-strangulation could cost the US its superpower status and reserve currency, ending the American century.
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