The Open Silicon Fallacy: How Panic Over Chinese Open-Weight Models Is Distorting American AI Policy

The following article was written with Gemini Flash 3.6 in the style of The Economist s Bagehot . It is an experiment in AI writing. The arguments and structure are mine. S I. The Dragons in the Weights In the summer of 2026, the fashionable anxiety in Washington and Silicon Valley is that Western technological supremacy [ ]