The push to turn frontier AI into an exclusive national moat is a catastrophic mistake. Global policy is rapidly fracturing into sovereign digital blocs, where powerful states treat foundational intelligence as classified defense infrastructure rather than a general-purpose utility.
Locking down frontier capability behind geopolitical walls won't make the world safer—it just guarantees a permanent underclass of nations and independent builders cut off from the sharpest tools on earth. The real fight of our decade isn't deciding who gets to regulate the models. It’s making sure the strongest brains ever built don't end up locked in government vaults while everyone else settles for scraps.