<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The United States and China are not merely... > The United States and China are not merely competing over an industry; they are building rival machine-intelligence substrates whose eventual capabilities may condition economic power, military power, cultural autonomy, demographic choices and the preservation of civilizational identity itself. **Source:** [[articles/The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War|The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War: AI, Demography, and the Civilizational Contest Between America and China]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The United States and China are not merely competing over an industry; they are building rival machine-intelligence substrates whose eventual capabilities may condition economic power, military power, cultural autonomy, demographic choices and the preservation of civilizational identity itself.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-united-states-china-civilizational-identity-itself ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->