United States
also referred to as: us
33 statements across 17 episodes · 14 bullish · 15 bearish · 16 people on the record · first statement Apr 25, 2023 by Sridhar Ramaswamy · said 513 times in 83 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Sarah Guo (124), Elad Gil (102), Sriram Krishnan (25), Brian Schimpf (21), Jared Kushner (20), Jacob Helberg (20), Jensen Huang (17), Dan Hendrycks (13)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 160 mentions in 22 episodes 7 per episode
- Pax Silica: Inside the Trump Administration’s Tech Strategy with Jacob Helberg
- NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang on Reasoning Models, Robotics, and Refuting the “AI Bubble” Narrative
- Coinbase’s Everything Exchange: Agentic Finance, Stablecoins & Tokenization with CEO Brian Armstrong
- The Largest Untapped Market Inside U.S. Defense | Emil Michael
- Redefining Chip Architecture with Arm CEO Rene Haas
- How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Taylor
- Re-engineering the Semiconductor Supply Chain with Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan
- Baseten CEO Tuhin Srivastava on Custom Models, and Building the Inference Cloud
- 14 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 219 mentions in 27 episodes 8 per episode
- No Priors Ep. 129 | With U.S. Under Secretary of State (E) Designate Jacob Helberg
- No Priors Ep. 125 | With Senior White House Policy Advisor on AI Sriram Krishnan
- No Priors Ep. 131 | With Jared Kushner
- No Priors Ep. 127 | With SemiAnalysis Founder and CEO Dylan Patel
- No Priors Ep. 119 | With Applied Intuition's Qasar Younis and Peter Ludwig
- No Priors Ep. 105 | With Director of the Center of AI Safety Dan Hendrycks
- No Priors Ep. 133 | With Alpha School Principal Joe Liemandt
- No Priors Ep. 130 | With OpenEvidence Founder Daniel Nadler
- 19 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 57 mentions in 15 episodes 4 per episode
- No Priors Ep. 93 | With Akash Systems' Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell
- No Priors Ep. 88 | With Founder & CEO of Kalshi Tarek Mansour
- No Priors Ep. 54 | With Sarah Guo & Elad Gil
- No Priors Ep. 84 | With Chair of the Federal Trade Commission Lina Khan
- No Priors Ep. 63 | With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
- No Priors Ep. 50 | With Stripe Head of Information Emily Glassberg Sands
- No Priors Ep. 94 | With CEO and Founder of Agency Elias Torres
- No Priors Ep. 87 | With Co-CEO of Waymo Dmitri Dolgov
- 7 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 77 mentions in 19 episodes 4 per episode
- No Priors Ep. 19 | With Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf
- No Priors Ep. 4 | With Zipline’s Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
- No Priors Ep. 23 | With Snowflake's CEO Frank Slootman
- No Priors Ep. 20 | With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
- No Priors Ep. 25 | With Palantir's CTO Shyam Sankar
- No Priors Ep. 21 | With Datadog Co-founder/CEO Olivier Pomel
- No Priors Ep. 8 | With Neeva’s Sridhar Ramaswamy
- No Priors Ep. 28 | With Khan Academy’s Creator Sal Khan
- 11 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
Everything said about United States, oldest first
Apr 25, 2023 positive
Ramaswamy: European Consumers Care More About Privacy, Aiding Neeva
“For us, for example, we were surprised that we did so much better in Europe compared to the United States, and you don't really think of them as being that different, but in practice, in terms of how many people care, it is actually very different.”
Apr 25, 2023 neutral
Srinivas: Only pursued a US PhD because it was fully funded
“To be very honest, I only came to the United States for doing a PhD because there was no other way for me to come to the United States. Like I could, I couldn't take a loan for a master's or something like that. So a PhD is fully funded and like sponsored. So …”
Jun 1, 2023 negative
Schimpf: US will not adopt autonomous robots making lethal strike decisions
“The U S is not going to adopt systems that have autonomous robots going out and making sort of lethal decisions about, you know, what to attack or not. That's not really how the U S works. We assign accountability to the person that employed a weapon system. T…”
Jun 1, 2023 bearish
Schimpf: US produces only 1.7 nuclear submarines annually as workforce retires
“We are producing less nuclear submarines per year, year over year than we have in the past. So we're like, 1.7 per year we can produce these submarines. It's not getting better, and the workforce to make these is retiring.”
Jun 1, 2023 bearish
Jun 1, 2023 positive
Schimpf: Drones and satellites will eliminate need to risk carrier strike groups
“Proliferated satellites and drones you know, an ability to consume mass amounts of information, make sense of the whole battle space, and the ability to engage with targets at outrageously long ranges on a very quick timeline, that fundamentally alters the cha…”
Jun 1, 2023 bearish
Schimpf: China holds a decisive military advantage with longer-range missiles
“China has been able to modernize and build new technologies and sort of like they're pretty decisive advantage in countering the way that U S fights the longer range of their missiles. Like all of these things are pretty substantial. So there was a degree of l…”
Jul 27, 2023
Sep 14, 2023 negative
Polosukhin: 2024 US election will see fake AI candidates and tailored agendas
“I think there will be probably next year will be very interesting in US because I think this will be a place where everybody will just take whatever their toys have in toolbox and do it even just for kicks, right? Even if it's not malicious, although some play…”
Jul 18, 2024 bullish
Gil: AI-transformable services headcount is $5T compared to $500B software spend
“You know software spend in the US is something like half trillion dollars a year. There's probably five trillion in headcount costs for services industries that could be transformed by AI, you know, things like legal or accounting or, you know, you name it, sa…”
Oct 31, 2024 positive
Jan 30, 2025 negative
Mar 5, 2025 negative
Hendrycks: US-China race will force rapid, high-risk military AI integration
“China can have AIs that are totally aligned with them. The U S can have AIs that are totally aligned with them. You still are going to have a strategic competition between the two. This is going to they're going to need to integrate it in their militaries. The…”
Apr 3, 2025 bearish
Guo: US lags in manufacturing skills and costs for defense components
“If we want to make key components for defense or automotive in the United States, like, we are quite behind in many domains in terms of getting competitive from a skill and cost perspective, and some of those things are worth investing in on both the positive …”
Aug 28, 2025 negative
Aug 28, 2025 bullish
Aug 28, 2025 bullish
Aug 28, 2025 negative
Sep 5, 2025 bullish
Nadler: AI tools will bridge specialist medical care gaps in rural US
“I think increasingly, certainly in rural areas and healthcare deserts at the fringes and edges of healthcare in the United States. That's absolutely how certainly open evidence is being used and how I think broadly is going to be used at least to sort of bridg…”
Sep 5, 2025 positive
Sep 5, 2025
Jan 8, 2026 positive
Huang: US-China relationship will improve under Trump administration
“I am optimistic that, that our relationship with China will improve. That President Trump and the administration has a really, really grounded and common sense attitude about and philosophy around, around how to think about China.”
Jan 8, 2026 positive
Jan 15, 2026 neutral
Jan 15, 2026 negative
Michael: The US does not manufacture fiber optic cables domestically
“I mean, you know, fiber optic cable, we don't make fiber optic cables in this country. Fiber optic, you know, basic fiber, which they're using in the Ukraine and Russia war to do drones because they're jamming and all that, and we use for telecom and all that.”
Jan 15, 2026 negative
Jan 15, 2026 negative
Apr 9, 2026 positive
Allaire: Exporting digital dollars is strategically vital for the US
“This is a way to continue to export the dollar, and so we're now exporting digital dollars, and we're doing that all around the world, and that's, like, strategically important to the United States and from a geopolitical, geo-economic perspective.”
May 14, 2026 positive
Helberg: Philippines is granting 4,000 acres for forward-deployed industrial base
“We made this arrangement with them where they are granting us 4000 acres, which is obviously very substantial. It's a third of the size of Manhattan. To do a very large industrial build out that's one of a kind that, that helps combine the predictability and c…”
May 14, 2026 bullish
Helberg: AI is driving over a third of US GDP growth
“You know, the American economy has been proven incredibly resilient, and a big part of that is AI being this incredible, you know, incredibly strong economic force that is already fueling over a third of our economic GDP growth right here in the US.”
May 14, 2026 negative
May 14, 2026 negative
Helberg: Framing US as established power misjudges its underdog operational identity
“Alison Graham wrote this book years ago called The Thucydides Trapped, where he kind of characterized America as the established power, and he characterized China as the rising power. And I actually think, you know, one of the really big flaws in that whole li…”