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Cyber Focus: Cybersecurity, National Security, and Critical Infrastructure

Cyber Focus: Cybersecurity, National Security, and Critical Infrastructure

Who's in Control of the AI Race? with Bill Evanina and Matt Hayden

Sep 22, 2026 · 43m

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Can the United States compete with China in AI while managing the risks the technology creates? Host Frank Cilluffo welcomes McCrary Institute senior fellows Bill Evanina and Matt Hayden for a discussion of the difficult choices behind that question. Evanina, who previously led U.S. counterintelligence, and Hayden, a former senior CISA official now at GDIT, assess expectations for the Trump–Xi summit, the limits of cyber cooperation, and the trade-offs behind chip export controls. The conversation also examines Chinese influence efforts surrounding data centers, the importance of energy to AI competition, the stakes of quantum computing, and whether familiar approaches to accountability can…