The East Coast dock worker strike beginning early October, debating over automation labor replacement and wages, has once again put concerns over AI disrupting job markets back in the limelight.

The United States’ strategy of export restrictions on computing chips has proven futile as Chinese companies find ways to circumvent these barriers. As China surges ahead with state-backed investments and open-source innovation, the U.S. risks losing its technological edge unless it reevaluates its approach in this escalating AI competition.

OpenAI has already taken the world by storm, with its era-defining ChatGPT, which has inspired a lot of major tech companies to follow in its footsteps. OpenAI’s thrusting of AI into the public consciousness has indirectly allowed it to indirectly power the stock market for nearly a year.