# American AI Leadership Is the Most Important National-Security Priority by Greg Brockman > "I think the consensus today around that national security issue was being the leader in America in AI is the most important thing for national security. I think everybody agreed on that today. Winning the AI race is winning and we need to do that. That's the first principle. Second principle that was discussed all day today was putting the American people first in that race. And I think everybody came together around those two principles today." > **— Greg Brockman**, *White House North Driveway remarks, September 29, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Direct recording and transcript:** [White House North Driveway remarks, 22:56](https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/2949493/#t-1376) — DRM News video with speaker-attributed, timestamped transcript. - **Exact original:** "I think the consensus today around that national security issue was being the leader in America in AI is the most important thing for national security. I think everybody agreed on that today. Winning the AI race is winning and we need to do that. That's the first principle. Second principle that was discussed all day today was putting the American people first in that race. And I think everybody came together around those two principles today." - **Attribution correction:** An early news transcription assigned the opening sentence to Jay Clayton. The recording shows Greg Brockman speaking at 22:56; the Reminder now preserves Brockman's complete continuous statement with no brackets or ellipses. - **Reconciled source dossier:** [[research/Super Intelligence Week Index of Statements from the White House Luncheon|Super Intelligence Week Index of Statements from the White House Luncheon]] — preserves the event chronology and the correction record. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War|The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War]] - **Article:** [[articles/Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen|Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Greg Brockman|Greg Brockman]] - [[wiki/AI Superpower|AI Superpower]] - [[wiki/AI Infrastructure|AI Infrastructure]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "I think the consensus today around that national security issue was being the leader in America in AI is the most important thing for national security. I think everybody agreed on that today. Winning the AI race is winning and we need to do that. That's the first principle. Second principle that was discussed all day today was putting the American people first in that race. And I think everybody came together around those two principles today." — Greg Brockman, White House North Driveway remarks, September 29, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-greg-brockman-american-ai-leadership-most-important-national-security ```