D-Day for AI: How to Create an End Game That Will Benefit Everyone

**Andrew Keen** (0:00)
Hello, my name is Andrew Keen. Welcome to Keen On America, the daily interview show about the United States.
Hello, everybody. It is Saturday, June the 6th, 2026 Been another remarkable week in technology out here in Silicon Valley. Anthropic filed for a huge IPA, not IPA, IPO. It was a slip, according to the New York Times. Meanwhile, terms have been revealed for SpaceX's unconventional $75 billion IPO. That seems rather small compared now to the Anthropic plans. But for Keith Teare, the issue this week is more political. He leads his That Was the Week newsletter with a series of pieces about the political implications of AI. There's a piece in the New York Times about super PACs, funded by AI companies, Rivals, OpenAI, of course, and Anthropic.
Meanwhile, this week, Anthropic urged a global pause in AI development. Some people think that that's being used by Anthropic in order to concretize its own domination. The Trump people are all over the map. Not surprisingly, according to Wired, Trump administration is at war with itself over AI regulation. So for Keith Teare, that was the week newsletter publisher. He asks in his editorial this week, what is the end game, of course, associated with technology, AI, and politics? Keith, should we be thinking of end games? History never ends, so why use this term end game?

**Keith Teare** (2:24)
Well, it's another word for a mission. You know, what is the mission? And it's kind of interesting when you look at the politics of AI.
There's opinions left and right. This week, Anthropic doubled down. One of the co-founders went on the record saying, the government's got to slow it all down.

**Andrew Keen** (2:44)
That was Jack Clark, right?

**Keith Teare** (2:46)
Yeah. Because in his view, AI is getting to the point where it can iteratively self-learn and therefore learn much faster than humans can organize it to learn. And he's scared about that.
So, it's pretty hard to have an opinion about these opinions unless you have in mind at least a long-term end state. It might not be the end in a historical sense, but a set of goals that shape your opinion about the present. And that seems to be missing. So, there are so many different opinions this week. None of them state what they'd like to see conclude.
And that seems strikingly bad. It's like going into a World Cup game without a game plan. But you just, each player plays their game spontaneously without a game plan.

**Andrew Keen** (3:44)
Well, the World Cup is starting next week. I'm sure that will be the case with some teams. We've been talking, you and I and many other people associated with tech about tech being the main event, so to speak, in the world. But now it's becoming self-evident. You note in your editorial that AI is no longer only a tech story, it's becoming a story about work, wealth, power, access, infrastructure, and institutional competence. That's a good summary.
How self-evident, Keith, is this to most people? Because we live in end times in some ways. You talk about an end game. The Economist, you linked to a very good piece in The Economist, talking about American Capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn. Many viewers, commentators, even politicians, are articulating things in end terms in the end of the world. So it's a very confusing time.

**Keith Teare** (4:47)
Yeah, I actually dropped it from the newsletter because there was too many articles. But Noah Smith had an article again this week called We Need Liberal Nationalism to Come Back, which was a reaction to that economist piece. And I think that there's a broad narrative. Now, if you look at it, the problem is we're so atomized between what used to be called left and right. I don't think it is anymore.
That we don't really have a proper conversation. And if we have a proper conversation, it's very clear that AI represents successful capitalism.

**Andrew Keen** (5:32)
I mean, you're just saying everyone's divided and then you just make the case for AI. You're no different from anyone else.

**Keith Teare** (5:39)
No, I'm saying let's break it down in a way that defies labels. And my first point is AI represents capitalism being successful. It's when resources are directed to money making opportunities due to the profit motive. Which coincides with innovation and spins up lots of jobs in AI. In fact, most of the recent numbers are suggesting lots of jobs due to AI everywhere, at least in the short term.
And that is successful capitalism.
What we have is unsuccessful government alongside that. So government is doing two things. The Trump administration is kind of, it was hands-off this last week. It decided that all models have to be submitted for 30 days assessment prior to being launched. So that's...