{"id":123376,"date":"2026-03-06T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/steve-forbes-the-ai-cold-war-has-begun-and-america-cannot-afford-to-lose-123376"},"modified":"2026-03-06T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:00:00","slug":"steve-forbes-the-ai-cold-war-has-begun-and-america-cannot-afford-to-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/steve-forbes-the-ai-cold-war-has-begun-and-america-cannot-afford-to-lose-123376","title":{"rendered":"STEVE FORBES: The AI Cold War has begun and America cannot afford to lose"},"content":{"rendered":"
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History teaches a simple lesson: the nation that sets the standards sets the future. In the 20th century, America wrote the rulebook for aviation, computing and finance. In the 21st, the decisive battleground is artificial intelligence<\/a>. And make no mistake \u2014 Beijing intends to write the rules.<\/p>\n

As everyone is now grasping, artificial intelligence will not be a niche technology. It will fundamentally reshape medicine, manufacturing, logistics, national defense and financial markets. It will create whole new industries. Analysts project trillions of dollars in economic value by decade\u2019s end. For now, the United States remains the innovation leader. But leadership is not guaranteed \u2014 especially when the Chinese Communist Party is deploying cheap, coal-fired energy, massive state subsidies and underhanded tactics to close the gap.<\/p>\n

Beijing\u2019s strategy centers on so-called\u00a0“open-weight” AI models\u2014systems whose parameters are downloadable and customizable. These models are exportable by design. They allow foreign governments to run the software on their own infrastructure, keeping servers, chips and data within their borders. In other words, China is offering countries a turnkey path to sovereign AI clouds \u2014 powered by Chinese architecture.<\/p>\n

TRUMP’S SCIENCE AND TECH MAN LAYS OUT WHITE HOUSE’S GLOBAL AI STRATEGY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

By contrast, America\u2019s most advanced labs \u2014 companies such as\u00a0OpenAI\u00a0and\u00a0Anthropic\u2014largely operate closed systems. These proprietary models are technological marvels, and U.S. enterprises and federal agencies are adopting them at scale. But they are controlled environments. The rules, safety frameworks and innovation pathways are set inside corporate boardrooms. They are not built to be downloaded, modified and deployed globally as infrastructure.<\/p>\n

China has recognized an uncomfortable truth: most nations will not build their own AI from scratch. They will adopt existing systems. For developing or resource-constrained countries, the choice may become stark \u2014 expensive, proprietary American services hosted abroad, or high-performing Chinese systems that can be run domestically at low cost. If that binary hardens, Beijing\u2019s model will win market share \u2014 and influence.<\/p>\n

This is not a purely commercial contest. AI systems reflect the societies that build them. A system shaped by the authoritarian priorities of the Chinese Communist Party will inevitably encode censorship, surveillance bias and state control. Evidence already raises alarms. Chinese models<\/a> such as those developed by\u00a0DeepSeek\u00a0have been shown to amplify Beijing\u2019s propaganda narratives and exhibit troubling vulnerabilities, including susceptibility to\u00a0“jailbreaks” that bypass safety controls. Combined with China\u2019s documented history of embedding hidden access points in advanced technologies, these weaknesses present obvious national-security concerns.<\/p>\n

Allowing Chinese open models to become the global template would export more than code. It would export governance assumptions \u2014 about speech, privacy and political power. That is unacceptable for a free society.<\/p>\n

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S TOP ‘SCIENTIFIC PRIORITY IS AI,’ ENERGY SECRETARY SAYS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The answer is not to retreat from openness but to compete in it. The United States must lead<\/a> in open-weight AI grounded in American values and market incentives. As President Trump\u2019s America\u2019s AI Action Plan correctly observed, open-source and open-weight models can become global standards in business and academia. That gives them geostrategic weight. If we fail to provide credible, competitive alternatives, others will fill the vacuum.<\/p>\n

Leadership requires policy clarity. First, Washington must embrace a light-touch regulatory framework<\/a> that sets sensible guardrails without suffocating innovation. Excessive federal micromanagement would drive research offshore and hand Beijing a gift. Second, states should resist the temptation to erect a patchwork of conflicting AI regulations. Fifty different rulebooks will not strengthen American leadership; they will fracture it.<\/p>\n

Third, policymakers must understand the enabling foundation of AI: abundant, affordable energy<\/a> and cutting-edge semiconductor capacity. Affected companies should heed President Trump\u2019s call to build their own power plants. Artificial intelligence runs on electricity and advanced chips. If we throttle domestic energy production or undermine our semiconductor ecosystem, we undercut our own ambitions.<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Finally, we must integrate AI into our national-security architecture<\/a>. Advanced systems will be indispensable in identifying emerging military threats, hardening critical infrastructure and safeguarding communications. The free world should build atop American-designed platforms, not those engineered to serve an authoritarian state.<\/p>\n

The United States has always thrived thanks to innovation made possible by free markets<\/a>. That\u2019s why we have the world\u2019s reserve currency, the dominant operating systems and the most dynamic capital markets. We did it not by copying others, but by setting the pace. Artificial intelligence is the next great arena.<\/p>\n

If we allow Beijing to write the AI rulebook, we will inherit a world shaped by censorship and coercion. If we lead \u2014 boldly, intelligently and with faith in free enterprise \u2014 we will shape a future that reflects liberty, transparency and opportunity.<\/p>\n

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