#190 - Sam Lyman - China’s Secret War on American AI

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.

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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 Battle for Control

00:04:18 - China’s Open-Source AI Strategy

00:06:12 - What Americans Fear About AI

00:08:23 - Sam’s Background at Treasury and BPI

00:10:38 - Is Data Centre Opposition Organic?

00:12:32 - The China Influence Network

00:13:37 - What Is Code Pink?

00:16:10 - The Party for Socialism and Liberation

00:18:52 - How Data Centre Protests Slow AI

00:23:37 - $24 Billion in AI Buildout Stalled

00:27:55 - Why China Wants to Slow US AI

00:29:12 - Chinese AI or American AI

00:32:03 - Is Chinese AI Harvesting Data?

00:36:37 - The US Enters the Open-Source Race

00:42:52 - The AI Doomer Debate

00:54:17 - The Push for Data Centre Moratoriums

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