Jake Sullivan Convenes AI Arms Race Summit Because Spies Just Won’t Do
KEY POINTS
- •In 2022, Jake Sullivan, then national security adviser, organized an AI arms race scenario workshop.
- •This interagency exercise took place in the Situation Room focusing on US-China competition and AGI risks.
- •The planning considered outcomes from trade disputes to potential conflicts influenced by advanced AI technology.
In the exhilarating year of 2022, Jake Sullivan, then National Security Advisor and undisputed master of situation-room drama, called an interagency meeting to ponder the unthinkable: an AI arms race between the US and China. This dazzling planning exercise, staged in the gilded halls of the Situation Room, aimed to forecast scenarios from awkward trade wars to full-blown conflicts that might include the emergence of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI — yes, the robot apocalypse!). Amid the extravagant governmental choreography, major tech players like Nvidia must've been sweating, knowing their AI chips might just spark the next Cold War 2.0's sequel. Because nothing says diplomacy like calculating doomsday models around a polished walnut table in the Capitol.
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When you answer AI doomsday by holding interagency parties, you know democracy is *really* ready for the robot takeover.
Nothing screams bipartisan readiness like a Situation Room dust-up about killer AI, just missing popcorn and sodas.
Jake Sullivan casually organizes AI war games while the rest of us just hope our smart fridge doesn’t turn on us first.
Source: Theverge | Published: 1/6/2026 | Author: Tina Nguyen
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