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Hera Hyeonseo Lee is a doctoral researcher in sociology at Binghamton University studying the political economy of AI infrastructure. She submitted expert analysis to the DOJ/FTC on AI antitrust guidelines (Docket No. ATR-2026-0001). Her previous work on this topic appeared in Tech Policy Press.
America is selling the AI stack it built with public money, with the same companies and the same national security framing. Nobody is asking whether the demand is real.
