AEI’s Daniel Stid joined The Giving Done Right Podcast with Phil Buchanan to discuss his argument that large-scale philanthropic investment in national policy advocacy has, over time, deepened American polarization rather than healed it.

🚨 NOW: President Trump drops his presidential tier list THE GREATEST: Trump GREAT: Lincoln Washington FDR Jefferson Jackson NEAR GREAT: Teddy Roosevelt Cleveland John Adams Polk Reagan Wilson Eisenhower AVERAGE: Clinton J.Q. Adams Monroe Hayes Madison Taft Arthur McKinley Andrew Johnson Nixon Kennedy Grant Van Buren Benjamin Harrison Truman BELOW AVERAGE: Tyler Coolidge Fillmore Taylor Buchanan Pierce George H.W. Bush LBJ Ford FAILURES: Biden Obama George W. Bush Harding Carter Hoover Interesting that he put FDR in "GREAT" and Reagan at "NEAR GREAT" 👀

SITUATION EXPLAINED: How AGI-pilled researchers ended up writing US chip export controls. • It traces to CSET at Georgetown, founded by Jason Matheny, a former IARPA director • Its scholars included Ben Buchanan, Tarun Chhabra, Saif Khan, and Helen Toner • Buchanan's framework: AI progress runs on data, algorithms, and computeompute is the only one of the three that's physical, constrained, and controllable • The 2021 NSCAI report recommended keeping China two generations behind at the leading edge, with Eric Schmidt, Matheny, Andy Jassy, and Safra Catz on the commission • Then that group joined the Biden administration • In September 2022 Jake Sullivan said the US must maintain as large a lead as possible, and the October 7 rules landed a month later @theojaffee: "The 2021 report recommended dramatically increasing government spending on AI R&D, which didn't really happen. Green cards for every AI PhD graduate, which didn't really happen. A digital service academy, which didn't really happen. It was a little bit early."