Benefiting from the AI Boom

Options for attracting investment and reducing regulatory burdens

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If the United States currently leads in high-end AI innovation, China excels at broad adoption — at integrating AI into the everyday workings of the economy and the state. China also seeks to use its cheap energy and disperse its hardware and software to other countries and control the AI supply chain, much in the way it has cut prices and dominated critical mineral supply chains in countries like Indonesia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and elsewhere. Because of this, China could win the competition for global market share — and the competition to use AI most effectively — even if its models never command the bleeding edge.

To win this race — and it must win it — the United States needs to advance from the cutting edge to mass application. With wise policy, that can happen in North Dakota.