The distills are almost certainly bad for the US economy.

AIs promise is undercutting knowledge work, which is our primary export. Manufacturing left ages ago.

In theory, if OpenAI/Anthropic win then the US still wins since they’re headquartered here.

If open or Chinese models succeed, it undercuts our knowledge work market and that money starts flowing out to inference providers instead of in to US companies and their employees.

> knowledge work, which is our primary export

We export more goods than services [1].

> Manufacturing left

America is the second-largest manufacturer in the world by a long shot.

> that money starts flowing out to inference providers

Where are most of these?

[1] https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/Press-Release/current_p...