This week, I am joined by my friend Klon Kitchen, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and we talk about technology policy, national security, and the rise of China.

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Meet Klon Kitchen:

At AEI, Kitchen focuses on the intersection of national security and defense technologies and innovation. Through his research, he works to understand and explain how emerging technologies are shaping modern statecraft, intelligence, and warfighting, while focusing on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, robotics, and quantum sciences. Before joining AEI, Mr. Kitchen was director of the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Technology Policy, where he led an enterprise-wide, interdisciplinary effort to understand and shape the nation’s most important technology issues. Prior to joining Heritage, Klon was National Security Advisor to Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska and also the Staff Director of the National Security and International Trade and Finance Subcommittee for the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

Resources:

• AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the new world order by Kai-Fu Lee
• The Age of AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity by Jason Thacker
• The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place by Andy Crouch