Katherine Boyle

Katherine Boyle × Sarah B. Rogers

A Western AI stack built around individualistic reasoning, user consent and viewpoint neutrality is presented as national-security and soft-power infrastructure.Copyright rules, strict-liability proposals and European content enforcement could expose American platforms to fines reaching 6% of global revenue while making model development unpredictable.Rogers favors transparent provenance, censorship-circumvention VPNs and Community Notes, leaving the unresolved risk of foreign regulation shaping speech and AI systems across borders.

Shyam Sankar × Katherine Boyle × Erik Torenberg

Shyam Sankar argues that restoring deterrence requires reconnecting commercial R&D and manufacturing with national security after defense-only companies rose from 6% to 86% of major-weapons spending.His AI thesis favors infrastructure and “ontology” layers as models commoditize, while alpha software expressing customer-specific advantage may endure better than standardized beta SaaS vulnerable to vibe coding.AI-enabled reindustrialization could raise worker productivity 50 to 100 times and reunite production with innovation, but institutional competence, national will, and unresolved day-two maintenance remain critical risks.

Katherine Boyle × Scott Kupor × Greg Barbaccia

OPM expects the civilian federal workforce to shrink from about 2.4 million to around 2.1 million by year-end, largely through voluntary deferred-resignation programs.Grade inflation—only 0.3% below “meets expectations”—is driving limits on top ratings and a shift toward measurable merit.The execution test is whether “measured risk,” technical hiring and distributed AI adoption can lower rework and operating costs without compromising national security or benefit delivery.