AI Fatalism Is Blocking Real Choices on Regulation and War
Brad Carson, a former congressman and senior Pentagon official who now leads Americans for Responsible Innovation, argues that AI development is not an unstoppable force beyond public control. In a long exchange with Keith Duggar, Carson makes the case that governments still have leverage over frontier AI through chips, law, procurement and international negotiation, and that fatalism is itself a political choice. His sharpest warnings concern military use, where opaque neural systems could turn lethal targeting into probabilistic scores without intelligible accountability.
Machine Learning Street Talk·May 31, 2026·23 min read
