As with every great industrial leap, the race among states to lead the AI revolution is reaching a fever pitch. We are living through a transformation that could shape the 21st century even more profoundly than railroads and steel defined the late 19th century, or the personal computer and the Internet transformed the close of the 20th. We are now entering the steep part of the hockey-stick curve for AI innovation — when breakthroughs move from research labs and pilot projects into the physical world, driving exponential changes in how we produce energy, manufacture goods, move people and freight, and secure national defense.

In this age of “future shock” innovation, progress is inseparable from energy and infrastructure — and infrastructure, in turn, is inseparable from political will. T

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