Underneath these pictures -- triggering for some, alarming for others -- is a larger point I hope doesn't get lost

Talent, human talent, is by far the biggest bottleneck AI. Yes, energy, chips, powered up DC shells, etc. are all bottlenecks. But talent up and down the stack to execute, research, experiment is the most enduring and hardest to solve, even if AI R&D gets automated tomorrow

Yet in this US-China AI "race" (again, not the right framing in my view, stir up too much tribal stupidity, I prefer "co-opetition"), neither country has a good talent strategy

In America, ICE racial profiling and attacks on universities will have long lasting chilling effects

In China, narrowing academic freedom (and all sorts of other freedoms) have caused brain drain for years, if not to the US, then elsewhere. Thus "the faces of American AI" are what they are

"Your Chinese against my Chinese" is cute as a saying, but ultimately dehumanizing. If you don't treat people as people, bad things happen.