n this examination of 21st-century geopolitics, Hunt will explore the critical distinction between artificial intelligence agents and human agency. The Chinese Communist Party’s energy infrastructure advantage threatens to determine global AI leadership and whether authoritarian or democratic values shape human-AI interaction. Hunt will argue that America must build energy abundance through a conservative approach to light-touch industrial policy mobilization akin to WWII or the Cold War to preserve Western civilization’s commitment to individual freedom, constitutional governance, and human flourishing in the age of artificial intelligence.