{"id":240573,"date":"2026-07-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/a-better-way-to-build-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T01:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T05:10:13","slug":"a-better-way-to-build-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/a-better-way-to-build-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"A Better Way to Build AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/united-states\/better-way-build-ai\">A Better Way to Build AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/united-states\/better-way-build-ai\">https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/united-states\/better-way-build-ai<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-06 00:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.foreignaffairs.com\">www.foreignaffairs.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The United States faces a challenge in balancing national ambitions for artificial intelligence infrastructure with local communities&#8217; priorities due to a decentralized governance structure.<\/li>\n<li>Key tensions arise between central technological strategies and local governance, as seen in disputes over data centers, transmission lines, and high-energy computing facilities.<\/li>\n<li>Unlike China&#8217;s centralized approach, the U.S. must navigate opposition and build local legitimacy for infrastructure projects which threatens its lead in AI.<\/li>\n<li>The lack of a model to connect national technological goals with local consent can lead to resistance, delaying projects, and fostering distrust between developers and communities.<\/li>\n<li>Democratic institutions must adapt to maintain technological leadership by fostering genuine local buy-in, treating community engagement not as a hurdle but as an asset.<\/li>\n<li>Achieving sustainable consent requires standardized transparency, clear local benefits, and ongoing community liaison and engagement.<\/li>\n<li>Successful projects that benefit local communities, such as Google&#8217;s Texas expansion and Amazon&#8217;s involvement in Umatilla, Oregon, show the legitimacy advantage of integrating community interests.<\/li>\n<li>Achieving local consent is crucial as it&#8217;s a necessary foundation for technological ambitions and for maintaining the country\u2019s strategic edge in a decentralized political environment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Better Way to Build AI https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/united-states\/better-way-build-ai Publish Date: 2026-07-06 00:00:00 Source Domain: www.foreignaffairs.com The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn-live.foreignaffairs.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_share\/public\/images\/2026\/07\/02\/2026-03-26T100448Z_1694580204_RC2HAKA80W7H_RTRMADP_3_USA-TRUMP-ECONOMY-MANUFACTURING.jpg?itok=oK_yzR2j","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-240573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240575,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240573\/revisions\/240575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}