A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat (wired.com)

"...Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is funding a campaign to spread pro-AI messaging and stoke fears about China.."

So they dont laugh anymore, and they are at the phase where they fight you...the next phase is China wins.