When one country announces a major tariff and the other replies “dollar for dollar,” the phrase hides a specific technical goal: matching the dollar burden of border duties. Understanding it means thinking in ad valorem tariff math, customs valuation, and uncertainty as trade flows shift after tariffs hit.
Encryption already pushed “going dark” into phones and messengers. Now AI can also accelerate vulnerability discovery and patching, shrinking exploit windows. The result may be a capability drop for attackers too—an inverted “going dark” caused by faster defense.
Open-weights models raise real safety and national-security questions, but a blanket ban targets the wrong lever. A more technical approach constrains compute and distillation pathways, and adds mandatory pre-release safety testing for sufficiently capable models.