China girl, pt. 6 (finale): the AI reckoning of America's future

Or: the conclusion to a six-part series on how China mobilizes women while America excludes them, and why AI governance is where we either learn the lesson or lose for good

The thing about making the same mistake in relationships, nuclear weapons, space technology, conventional defense, and now AI is that at some point it stops being a mistake. It’s a pattern. Patterns are choices. A mistake is a choice repeated, and the conclusion to my China girl series on how China is utilizing women to superpower its defense industry while America falls behind is all about how to avoid bigger mistakes for the future.

I’ll show how AI governance is the logical end point to inform future policy making positions and decisions in lieu of obvious interventions like encouraging more women to study engineering.

If you’re new here: I’ve spent five parts documenting how America voluntarily handicaps itself in defense technology by excluding women while China mobilizes everyone. The short version is we lose $100 billion annually, China closed an 80% AI capability gap in 13 months, and we keep forgetting that we solved this problem during WWII and Apollo.