China and the US are pursuing fundamentally different AI strategies: China invests in embodied, practical applications and in preparing students to use AI, whereas the US pursues the 'holy grail' of artificial superintelligence, driving electricity bills up around 8% a year and natural gas prices higher, which is likely to provoke a populist anti-AI backlash.
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“electricity bills are going up to 8% a year because it is sucking up so much... there will be a sort of populist backlash against the Trump administration that is going to have a strong component of anti-AI”
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Rich Countries Are the Most Likely to COLLAPSE | Aaron Bastani Meets John Rapley— Novara MediaCreated: 6/18/2026, 1:57:52 PM
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