AI:AM GUEST
Samuel Hammond
Chief Economist & AI Policy Director, Foundation for American Innovation
Samuel Hammond is Chief Economist and Director of AI Policy at the Foundation for American Innovation, focused on AI policy, state capacity, and technology governance. He writes the Second Best Substack.
APPEARANCES
2 AI:AM appearances.
AI:AM LIVE — June 16, 2026 — Doom, Policy, and the Physical Economy: Liron Shapira, Samuel Hammond, Matt McKinney
A morning that ran from AI existential risk to the physical economy. The open took on the SpaceX acquisition of Cursor and what it reveals about frontier AI as a gravitational black hole absorbing the application layer — then three guests: Liron Shapira of Doom Debates on whether near-certain AI doom is calibrated or unfalsifiable; Samuel Hammond of the Foundation for American Innovation on state capacity, the Fable export-control standoff, and AI-driven governance; and Loop CEO Matt McKinney on where enterprise AI is actually delivering ROI in supply chains. The show ran nearly three hours.
GUESTS · Liron Shapira, Samuel Hammond, Matt McKinneyCognitive Revolution LIVE
A live Cognitive Revolution edition on AI science, policy, governance, bio, agent behavior, and national security.
GUESTS · James Zou, Samuel Hammond, Abhishaike Mahajan, Shoshannah Tekofsky +2