Brains, Not Just Chips: Securing America's AI Talent Advantage in an Era of Strategic Competition
- AFAI

- May 3
- 8 min read
America's lead in artificial intelligence is often discussed in terms of compute, capital, and chips. The deeper truth is harder to talk about and more important to confront: that lead rests on a thin, mobile, and increasingly contested layer of human talent — a disproportionate share of which was born, raised, and educated in the People's Republic of China before joining the U.S. innovation ecosystem.
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