The Bitter Struggle: Superintelligence, Superpowers, and the Fate of the World

​Join SAIS Dmitri Alperovitch Assistant Professor Ben Buchanan, the former White House Special Advisor for AI, for a conversation on AI and national security with David E. Sanger, White House, and National Security Correspondent for The New York Times. The two will discuss Ben’s new book The Bitter Struggle: Superintelligence, Superpowers, and the Fate of the World.

​AI is becoming the decisive strategic technology of this century. Built by the private sector, it has profound implications for governments — and for all of us. Can the United States keep China from catching up in AI development, or do export controls just buy time? What happens when a handful of AI labs hold capabilities no government can match? And what if the hardest challenge is not between democracies and autocracies, but at home, in the fight to make sure AI lives up to our democratic values?