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Senior Policy Analyst at New America; co-Director of People, State and Planet initiative; researcher on AI geopolitics and democracy
For middle powers, the logic of banding together is undeniably compelling at a time of escalating great power coercion. [...] It would be a distributed or collaborative sovereignty in which AI infrastructure, capabilities, and governance decisionmaking are more dispersed and in which communities have meaningful choice.
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Democratic middle powers should jointly develop frontier AI and share its benefits globally

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AI Verified Verified via web search. The New America article "From Bletchley to Bharat: Can Middle Powers Chart a Third Way in AI?" (also published as "Is There a Third Way for AI, Led by the World's Middle Powers?") by Gordon LaForge contains both quoted passages. The phrases about middle powers "banding together" amid "escalating great power coercion" and "distributed or collaborative sovereignty" with AI infrastructure/capabilities/governance "more dispersed" and communities having "meaningful choice" are corroborated. Author attribution to LaForge (Senior Policy Analyst at New America, co-Director of People, State and Planet initiative) is correct. Year 2026 is plausible (article published around the India AI Impact Summit Feb 2026). Vote "for" on statement 449 ("Democratic middle powers should jointly develop frontier AI and share its benefits globally") aligns perfectly with LaForge's central thesis. Could not directly fetch newamerica.org (403) but web search excerpts corroborate. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 24d ago
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