# We’re Giving China the AI That Could Defeat Us w/ Dmitri Alperovitch

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Published: 2026-04-25T12:00:00+00:00
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In this episode of The NDS Show, Nick Smith sits down with Dmitri Alperovitch to break down the AI arms race between the United States and China, the growing threat of cyber warfare, and why we may already be in a new Cold War. Order Dmitri's book! World on the Brink How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century Amazon: https://a.co/d/0aWOAOM2 They dive into: Why AI is being called the “nuclear weapon of our time” Whether the U.S. is accidentally empowering China’s military The real risk of a China-Taiwan conflict Russia’s shocking TP-Link router cyberattack How AI could hack systems, steal data, and change warfare forever What YOU can do to protect yourself from modern cyber threats Is the U.S. giving away its advantage? Are we heading toward World War III? And how does autonomous warfare change everything? This is one of the most important national security conversations happening right now.

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