Former DeepMind Policy Chief Warns US Nationalistic AI Stance Signals 'Worst-Case Scenario'

Verity Harding, the former global public policy head at Google DeepMind and now director of the AI & Geopolitics Project at the University of Cambridge, has warned that the Trump administration's nationalistic approach to artificial intelligence is early evidence that a worst-case scenario is taking shape. In an interview with WIRED, Harding argued that framing AI development as a zero-sum "arms race" is corroding the international cooperation that once defined the field and hardening confrontation between states.