Threat Assessment, Not a Race // AIDRAN

The 2026 U.S. Threat Assessment was built to resist simplification. Its framing of AI as one pressure among many interconnected risks ^[4] — placed alongside cyber threats, regional flashpoints, and great-power competition — was a structural choice by the IC, not an oversight. The document does not rank AI as the defining contest of the moment. It refuses to.

The Threat Assessment Said 'Complex.' The Internet Heard 'Race.'

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