The Nvidia Scandal Is Not a Spy Thriller: A WORLD FOR ALL

The Nvidia Scandal Is Not a Spy Thriller: A WORLD FOR ALL

Posted by Center for International Policy on November 11, 2026

"As Ari Tolany and I wrote in A World For All, existing actors, networks, and institutions, “are legally, politically, and epistemically ill-equipped to grapple with the role of AI in the international system.” Yet like other technologies whose industrial champions heralded them as world-changing, we can build modern AI policy that starts “by treating AI as a tool, like electricity, that is bound by the laws of both physics and states.” And like other gilded ages dominated by rampant, disruptive, self-dealing industries, the way forward is to transform an easily compromised hoard of wealth and capacity into a mundane, human-regulated industry, where the consequences of indiscretion risk neither national security nor the pensions of retirees."

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