as sharpe points out in a foreign affairs essay, at the top 15 institutions publishing deep learning research, 13 are american universities or corporate labs. only one, qinwai university is chinese. american papers are cited 70% more often. these american advantages are likely to grow dramatically now that china has been blocked from the advanced trips that are absolutely essential to developing and using ai. we ll consider finance, despite the recent banking crisis, the biggest u.s. banks are now more dominant than they have ever been worldwide. they have passed rigorous stress tefs and built up their capital reserves and as a result they are now better positioned than the european and japanese counterparts and they re saddled with huge govern am debt and can t operate in the open global financial system because that would almost certainly trigger a