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CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY (J. Michael Waller) - AI has an anti-semitism problem Tue Aug 25 13:24:53 2026

Originally posted by The University of Texas at Austin Civitas Institute

Some AI systems appear to have been trained to handle anti-Semitism in a way that is at once serious and shallow. Most name-brand public AI assistants understate or deny ideological guardrails that push biases, censor facts, and twist narratives. More than 99 percent of users accept these falsehoods without pushback, according to Perplexity, one of the more reliable public-facing AI chatbots. And so built-in narratives, churned through authoritative- and neutral-sounding AI platforms with an air of sophistication and certainty, become further embedded into the public psyche. These household-name AI companies rely so heavily on Wikipedia to train their artificial intelligence that they cannot, or will not, escape its gravitational pull. As…Open

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY (Grant Newsham) - How can the United States possibly compete with China? Mon Aug 3 14:18:58 2026

Originally posted by Asia Times

China’s rulers invest tremendous resources into cultivating the ‘resistance is futile’ narrative among foreign elites and influentials Yes, China certainly seems daunting. Go there and take a look at massive modern factories operating 24/7, millions of industrial and domestic service robots, along with what look like never-ending shiny skyscrapers in Shenzhen, Shanghai and other cities. The sheer scale of it all is astonishing. Then internalize factoids such as this: China’s shipbuilding capacity is 200 times that of America’s. And there are the dependencies the United States has inflicted upon itself over the last 30 years for essential requirements such as medicine and the critical components and minerals on which…Open

REDSTATE (Erik Durneika) - The ‘Red Octopus’ Extends Its Tentacles: China’s Cognitive Warfare Amid Operation Epic Fury Sat Mar 7 23:25:00 2026