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US tech CEOs admit they want AI monopoly & 'unipolar world', blocking China's competition
US Big Tech oligarchs fear Chinese AI companies like DeepSeek. Billionaire Trump backer Peter Thiel admits they want monopolies: "competition is for losers". Anthropic CEO wants a US “unipolar world”.
Ben Norton
https://substack.com/@benjaminnorton
Feb 03, 2025
The CEO of Anthropic, a US AI company backed by Amazon and Google, argued that the government must impose heavy restrictions on China in order to maintain a monopoly on artificial intelligence technology.
If the US government can block China from getting advanced semiconductors, we will "live in a unipolar world, where only the US and its allies have these models", wrote Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.
Calling for more aggressive sanctions on China, Amodei warned, "Well-enforced export controls are the only thing that can prevent China from getting millions of chips, and are therefore the most important determinant of whether we end up in a unipolar or bipolar world".
This mindset, which is common in Silicon Valley, explains why US Big Tech corporations have been so afraid of emerging competitors in China.
It is widely assumed that capitalism is based on competition, but powerful US tech billionaire Peter Thiel argues the opposite. "Actually, capitalism and competition are opposites” ( https://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-for-losers-1410535536 ), he wrote back in 2014 in the Wall Street Journal.
"Competition is for losers", asserted Thiel, a Republican Party mega-donor who is a close ally of US President Donald Trump and who previously employed Vice President JD Vance.
Thiel insisted that US tech companies should "look to build a monopoly", because, as he put it, "Monopoly is the condition of every successful business".
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https://geopoliticaleconomy.substack.com/p/us-ai-monopoly-unipolar-world-china
US tech CEOs admit they want AI monopoly & 'unipolar world', blocking China's competition
US Big Tech oligarchs fear Chinese AI companies like DeepSeek. Billionaire Trump backer Peter Thiel admits they want monopolies: "competition is for losers". Anthropic CEO wants a US “unipolar world”.
Ben Norton
https://substack.com/@benjaminnorton
Feb 03, 2025
The CEO of Anthropic, a US AI company backed by Amazon and Google, argued that the government must impose heavy restrictions on China in order to maintain a monopoly on artificial intelligence technology.
If the US government can block China from getting advanced semiconductors, we will "live in a unipolar world, where only the US and its allies have these models", wrote Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.
Calling for more aggressive sanctions on China, Amodei warned, "Well-enforced export controls are the only thing that can prevent China from getting millions of chips, and are therefore the most important determinant of whether we end up in a unipolar or bipolar world".
This mindset, which is common in Silicon Valley, explains why US Big Tech corporations have been so afraid of emerging competitors in China.
It is widely assumed that capitalism is based on competition, but powerful US tech billionaire Peter Thiel argues the opposite. "Actually, capitalism and competition are opposites” ( https://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-for-losers-1410535536 ), he wrote back in 2014 in the Wall Street Journal.
"Competition is for losers", asserted Thiel, a Republican Party mega-donor who is a close ally of US President Donald Trump and who previously employed Vice President JD Vance.
Thiel insisted that US tech companies should "look to build a monopoly", because, as he put it, "Monopoly is the condition of every successful business".
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https://geopoliticaleconomy.substack.com/p/us-ai-monopoly-unipolar-world-china