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# The AI superpower is assembled from the power... > **The AI superpower is assembled from the power plant to the citizen, and the American citizen is the layer that finishes it.** The silicon is being etched, the factories are rising, the grid is being rebuilt, the models are compounding and the coalitions that govern them are forming. [[articles/Safety Discourse Is Transition Discourse|The opening of AI to the public]] has placed the most powerful tools ever built within reach of ordinary people. What remains is the decision of those people to pick them up, to defend the industry that makes them, and to insist that their country lead. {{**Vertical integration ends at the citizen, and the nation whose citizens choose the machine will own the century.**}} **Source:** [[articles/Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen|Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The AI superpower is assembled from the power plant to the citizen, and the American citizen is the layer that finishes it. The silicon is being etched, the factories are rising, the grid is being rebuilt, the models are compounding and the coalitions that govern them are forming. The opening of AI to the public has placed the most powerful tools ever built within reach of ordinary people. What remains is the decision of those people to pick them up, to defend the industry that makes them, and to insist that their country lead. Vertical integration ends at the citizen, and the nation whose citizens choose the machine will own the century.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-ai-superpower-assembled-machine-own-century ```