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Peter Zeihan: The AI Race to Regression

Thought Leader: Peter Zeihan
November 20, 2025

The AI race has been all the rage, but what if we were racing ourselves straight into regression?

OpenAI’s ChatGPT-5 is extremely powerful; however, it’s less user-friendly than its predecessor and is optimized for institutional users. Industrial and research applications are where the real power of AI lies. So, what happens when those energy-intensive data centers begin to falter?

Well, as globalization breaks down, that faltering is going to become a very real concern. Without an ecosystem that produces and shares all of the necessary components to make these AI behemoths run…we could see a technological regression that threatens the future of AI as we know it.

Peter is also a New York Times best-selling author whose first three books — The Accidental Superpower, The Absent Superpower and Disunited Nations — have been recommended by Mitt Romney, Fareed Zakaria, and Ian Bremmer. Peter’s fourth book, The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization, was published in June 2022 and was a New York Times bestseller.

With a keen eye toward what will drive tomorrow’s headlines, his irreverent approach transforms topics that are normally dense and heavy into accessible, relevant takeaways for audiences of all types. Contact WWSG to host Peter Zeihan.

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