The Hill’s framing of AI as a threat to be “secured” is precisely the kind of rearview-mirror thinking that will leave America strategically exposed. We are not in a race to build a bigger firewall. We are in a race to build a new architecture for national resilience—one that treats AI not as a weapon to be controlled but as the central nervous system of the 21st-century state. The consensus view is that we need more regulation, more oversight, and more containment. I disagree.