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How AI Could Upend Global Politics - Ian Bremmer with Nicholas Thompson

aired Aug 19, 2026 · 64.0m
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Summary

The best talent gets the most from AI. If you were an alien, you just happened to show up right now.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of right, like, it's, including: The best coding engineer gets the most value from that platform.

Key takeaways
  1. 01Then imagine one of those aliens said, okay, let's check out how do they run the stuff down there?
  2. 02Now, some of the things that Ian has spent his career thinking about, like America's technological advantage over its foes, its relationship with its allies, are changing and quick
  3. 03But I mean, that mythos, fable, we're already in an environment where it would be very, in principle, easy to deploy advanced AI models to hack into critical infrastructure
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