person

Samo Burja

Bismarck Analysis founder; civilizational decline theorist

Founder of Bismarck Analysis; sociologist of the long-run dynamics of institutions. Argues that great-power competition and elite formation determine technological adoption more than the technology itself.

current Founder, Bismarck Analysis

homepage @samoburja

Strategy positions

Centralised projectendorses

Merge frontier development into one state-led project

Argues frontier AI will be a state-led project regardless of present-day rhetoric; the United States and China have already begun this transition, and corporate self-regulation will not survive contact with great-power competition.

AI labs are pretending they are private companies competing in a market. They are not. They are vassals in a state-led great-power competition that will reshape them whether they like it or not.

✍ blogSamo Burja, Bismarck Analysis· Bismarck Brief· 2023· faithful paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

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Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Samo Burja's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

Leopold Aschenbrenner
shared 1 · J=0.50
Author of 'Situational Awareness'; former OpenAI Superalignment team
Sam Hammond
shared 1 · J=0.50
Foundation for American Innovation senior economist

Record last updated 2026-04-25.