person
Sam Hammond
Foundation for American Innovation senior economist
Senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation (formerly Lincoln Network); writes the 'Second Best' Substack on technology and political economy. Argues for an aggressive U.S. industrial policy on AI compute.
Strategy positions
Centralised projectendorses
Merge frontier development into one state-led projectArgues the U.S. must run a Manhattan-scale state-supported AI program because the alternative is either Chinese leadership or distributed capture by a few private firms.
If we believe AGI is genuinely transformative, then the question is not whether the state will be involved, but whether it will be involved with foresight or panic.
Governance firstendorses
Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimesArgues AI demands updated US state capacity and labour-market institutions; conservative-coded but governance-supportive.
If AI is the most important technology of the 21st century, the US state should be set up to govern it. Right now, it isn't.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.