AnalysisPolicyAugust 11, 2026

Asterisk essay warns non-frontier AI nations face 'permanent periphery'

Essay argues the 193 countries without a domestic frontier AI developer face the biggest risks to economic welfare and security — 'the better AI goes for its makers... the more it threatens to disrupt the countries that build no frontier AI themselves.' Citizens of unprepared nations risk 'lasting irrelevance.'

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