Daniel Kurtz-Phelan

I'm Dan Kurtz-Phelan, and this is the Foreign Affairs Interview.

This expectation that we are one coercive push away from regime collapse or economic collapse, I think is really magical thinking, and, uh, it is not going to, in any way, put us in a better place.

I'm not saying that, uh, uh, this could go on forever now with the sanctions and the, and the blockade.

I'm Dan Kurtz-Phelan, and this is the Foreign Affairs interview.

[upbeat music] The biggest fear in Europe right now is that the United States will not take any sort of Article 5 incident seriously and will fail to show up and support allies.

And of course, that would provide Putin with the perfect moment because then he would be able to show the world that NATO's Article 5 commitment is really not worth the paper that it's written on.

I'm Dan Kurtz-Phelan, and this is the Foreign Affairs Interview.

[upbeat music] The concept of a decisive strategic advantage of whoever gets to a certain threshold of AI capabilities, whichever country gets there first will have super intelligent systems that could potentially have super smart military weapons systems, could have dominant cyber capabilities, could basically come to rule the world.

I mean, I, like, put it so bluntly because I think that does kind of reflect the, the stakes that many in Washington feel when it comes to why the US needs to lead in, in AI.