After paying visits during his travels to, among others, Texas and Miami — a place ROF's Sébastien Laye vaunts as "the new American economic model" — the economist and AI entrepreneur whose book is being published next week has penned an article called The ascent of AI diplomacy.
As artificial intelligence becomes the nervous system of advanced economies, it is simultaneously becoming the grammar of power in international relations. We are entering the era of AI diplomacy — where national influence is measured not just in nuclear warheads or GDP, but in computer clusters, proprietary models, and access to strategic data.
But AI, as a General Purpose Technology, has accelerated the fusion of technology and statecraft. Like the steam engine in the British Empire or petroleum in post-World War II U.S. hegemony, AI now underwrites national competitiveness. And like oil, its essential inputs — data, compute, and algorithms — are becoming commodities over which alliances are struck and conflicts sparked. It is thus crucial for leading powers to control it.
… The current U.S. administration has not merely acknowledged this shift; it has enshrined it as doctrine. … Thus, a new U.S. doctrine is emerging. It is unapologetically accelerationist, oriented around deregulation, innovation, and technological sovereignty. …
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| ROF's Sébastien Laye and Camilla Furman at Bourse Tocqueville on May 26 with the Heritage Foundation's Kevin Roberts |
Monday May 26
Last night in Paris, I was invited to a Bourse Tocqueville event hosted with the Heritage Foundation. We had the pleasure of welcoming in Europe @KevinRobertsTX , head of the renowned foundation, as well as many of his experts, such as @lora_ries and Mike Gonzalez. It was a great… pic.twitter.com/dUP9vKr4Ym
— sebastien laye (@SebastienLaye) May 27, 2025
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