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America is waking up to a fight that matters more than another cable-news squabble — the race to control artificial intelligence. This weekend National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett appeared on Fox News Sunday to lay out the administration’s posture: cautious, pragmatic, and unapologetically committed to keeping American innovation in the lead.
Hassett told hosts that the White House is convening the relevant agencies to discuss next steps, signaling a coordinated approach rather than knee-jerk federal overreach. That’s the right instinct — we should hold hearings and plan, not hand the tech to Brussels-style bureaucrats who will smother it in red tape.
Meanwhile, critics in Silicon Valley have been urging a blanket slowdown, with names like Dario Amodei and others calling for brakes on development; Washington’s job should be to listen but not to capitulate. Conservative patriots know that surrendering our lead to China under the banner of fear would be the single greatest national-security blunder of our time.
On the economy, Hassett pushed back hard against panic narratives, defending rising real incomes and arguing that Americans are better off under pro-growth policies than the doom-sayers admit. As the midterms loom, the administration is right to emphasize results over soundbites; voters care about paychecks and opportunity far more than elite hand-wringing about hypothetical dystopias.
Let’s be blunt: Democrats and some technocrats want rules that sound virtuous but end up strangling startups, killing jobs, and exporting the future to authoritarian rivals. The conservative case is straightforward — smart, narrowly tailored guardrails where needed, and a relentless defense of free enterprise so America stays first in the industries of tomorrow.
Washington must make clear that regulation will protect citizens, not punish producers, and that American workers and innovators will not be collateral damage in a virtue-signaling exercise. If the administration follows through with serious, practical meetings and then crafts policy that defends both liberty and security, conservatives should rally behind it.
At the end of the day, as the president himself put it, whoever wins AI wins — and that simple truth demands we fight for advantage, not for a paper chase of endless restrictions. Hardworking Americans know we can secure safety without surrendering supremacy, and now is the moment to stand up for policies that keep jobs, investment, and cutting-edge research right here at home.
