# AI Is the Biggest Technology-Government Collision of My Lifetime by Dave Blundin > "I've never in my life seen a technical topic like AI be a dominant topic in elections. By and large, industrial America and technological America operate over here, and government operates over there. Government largely does nothing, and therefore industrial America thrives. Here, you're seeing the biggest intersection I've ever seen of a technology that wants to grow and a government or election cycle directly saying, 'I'm going to stop you. I'm going to have a moratorium.'" > **— Dave Blundin**, *Moonshots #309, recorded November 6, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Source dossier:** [[research/Midterms, Politics, AI, and Infrastructure Research - Moonshots|Midterms, Politics, AI, and Infrastructure Research — Moonshots]]. - **Direct publication or recording:** [recording, 00:10:20–00:11:12](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF-ADiC7Khs&t=620s). - **Editorial form:** The Reminder preserves the prepared contiguous quotation; punctuation and spoken disfluency treatment are recorded in the candidate map when applicable. - **Context and treatment:** Dave Blundin identifies AI infrastructure as the technology, American elections and government as the institutional arena, and direct political restraint as the historically unusual consequence; [recording, 00:10:20–00:11:12](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF-ADiC7Khs&t=620s). Direct contiguous turn; spoken filler and immediate repetition trimmed. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Collection:** [[collections/The Politics of AI Infrastructure|The Politics of AI Infrastructure]] - **Collection:** [[collections/American Infrastructure|American Infrastructure]] - **Collection:** [[collections/American|American Culture Collection]] - **Article:** [[articles/Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen|Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War|The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Political Party That Inherits Super Intelligence in 2028|The Political Party That Inherits Super Intelligence in 2028]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Dave Blundin|Dave Blundin]] - [[wiki/AI Infrastructure|AI Infrastructure]] - [[wiki/Moonshots 309|Moonshots 309]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "I've never in my life seen a technical topic like AI be a dominant topic in elections. By and large, industrial America and technological America operate over here, and government operates over there. Government largely does nothing, and therefore industrial America thrives. Here, you're seeing the biggest intersection I've ever seen of a technology that wants to grow and a government or election cycle directly saying, 'I'm going to stop you. I'm going to have a moratorium.'" — Dave Blundin, Moonshots #309, recorded November 6, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-dave-blundin-ai-is-the-biggest-technology-government-collision-of-my-lifetime ```