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The underlying philosophy behind the actions of many Silicon Valley CEOs—ranging from Thiel and Sam Altman of OpenAI to Dario Amod of Anthropic—reveals a consistent agenda: to entrench monopolistic barriers that inhibit foreign competitors from flourishing. They aim for a U.S.-centric technological hegemony, which they consider vital for their profits and for maintaining military and economic dominance globally.
A hearing on Capitol Hill underscored these sentiments, where experts discussed potential strategies to “steal” talented engineers from China, reflecting a growing urgency among U.S. leaders to stave off technological competition. This narrative is increasingly becoming a bipartisan issue, with both parties rallying around the need to slow China’s innovation trajectory.