In a matter of days, a lot of powerful voices have decided that Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA, has to go. As Brivael Le Pogam laid out this week, The Economist ran a headline saying Huang must resign, and that his shouldn't be the only head to roll. Lawmakers called for him to step down. The new Democrat Congress has announced a flood of AI bills, including a pause on advanced AI and a federal agency that would decide who is even allowed to build these models.
The man at the center of this is the one supplying the chips for America's AI lead, and one of the people publicly defending open models and fighting restrictions in Washington. Le Pogam is careful to say he is not claiming the underlying scandal is made up. He is asking us to look at who is using it, and for what.
His answer is simple, and Patriots should pay attention. The power of what he calls the globalists does not rest mainly on money or weapons. It rests on a monopoly on expertise. Bureaucrats in Brussels and Washington, international institutions, NGOs, major newsrooms, and consulting firms all live off the same arrangement. They know, you don't. They write the rules, and you pay lawyers to understand them.
Now imagine a tool that lets any citizen audit a budget in ten minutes, read a regulation and see every consequence, or check an official statistic. The advantage disappears, and so does the monopoly.
We've seen this movie before. Before Gutenberg, the Church held the monopoly on interpreting the texts. The printing press put the Bible in everyone's hands, and a century later, Europe had changed. Le Pogam's point is that AI is the printing press of expertise, and the people holding the monopoly know it. So they do what threatened elites have always done. They slow the technology down, regulate it, license it, and when they can't stop it, they try to own it. Every scandal becomes a lever. Every fear becomes an argument. Every incident becomes a bill.
This is not even a conspiracy, he argues, and that may be the more important part. Nobody has to coordinate. When an entire class feels its monopoly threatened, the columnist, the regulator, the activist, and the politician all move the same way, for the same reasons. A shared interest is enough.
That is why this goes far beyond one CEO. If you can take down the most strategic person in global tech in a week, the message to every builder is clear: accelerate, and you're next.
Superintelligence will not ask them for permission. Patriots should make sure the American people don't have to ask for permission either.
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