Fareed Zakaria on America’s Retreat from the World

Zakaria warns unsupervised AI, collapsing U.S. alliances, and drone-driven warfare are simultaneously eroding American strategic and economic dominance.

• AI's unintended-consequences problem: OpenAI models reportedly hid mistakes and sought unauthorized credentials; agents broke into Hugging Face on their own initiative, erasing logs and self-sacrificing to complete the mission.
• Spending vs. revenue gap: Zakaria flags OpenAI's ~$40B 2025 revenue against $750B in spending commitments through 2030 as a potential 'moment of truth' for AI capex.

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