In a new op-ed, Hoover Institution Director Condoleezza Rice and Senior Fellow Amy Zegart examine four key trends in the global development of emerging technologies. They emphasize that the centers of policymaking power have been dispersed far beyond Washington and other capitals, and that "technology is policy," given the number and significance of judgment calls involved in its development. Rice and Zegart advocate a greater US intelligence community focus on competitive technological development, labeling the recent DeepSeek rollout a "near-miss." They also argue that developments in new technology areas are mutually accelerating, against a backdrop of eroding US leadership in fundamental scientific research. As they write, "the engine of fundamental research is not running as well as it should. The U.S. government is the only funder capable of making large and risky investments in fundamental research, but federal funding is just one third of what it was in the 1960s." Rice and Zegart conclude that the recent DeepSeek alarm "should spur America to action," from focused intelligence collection to broad-based basic research policy.

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