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Lawfare Daily: Tim Fist and Arnab Datta on the Race to Build AI Infrastructure in America

Kevin Frazier, Tim Fist, Arnab Datta, Jen Patja
Tuesday, March 4, 2025, 8:00 AM
Discussing how America's AI infrastructure is being built.

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Tim Fist, Director of Emerging Technology Policy at the Institute for Future Progress, and Arnab Datta, Director of Infrastructure Policy at IFP and Managing Director of Policy Implementation at Employ America, join Kevin Frazier, a Contributing Editor at Lawfare and adjunct professor at Delaware Law, to dive into the weeds of their thorough report on building America’s AI infrastructure. The duo extensively studied the gulf between the stated goals of America’s AI leaders and the practical hurdles to realizing those ambitious aims.

Check out the entire report series here: Compute in America.

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Kevin Frazier is an AI Innovation and Law Fellow at UT Austin School of Law and Contributing Editor at Lawfare .
Tim Fist is the director of Emerging Technology Policy at the Institute for Future Progress and an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security.
Arnab Datta is the director of infrastructure policy at IFP and managing director of policy implementation at Employ America.
Jen Patja is the editor and producer of the Lawfare Podcast and Rational Security. She currently serves as the Co-Executive Director of Virginia Civics, a nonprofit organization that empowers the next generation of leaders in Virginia by promoting constitutional literacy, critical thinking, and civic engagement. She is the former Deputy Director of the Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier and has been a freelance editor for over 20 years.
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