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Media Highlights TV • July 20, 2026 

# Tyler Cowen explains why banning Chinese open-source AI models is impossible on the TBPN podcast 

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##### [Tyler Cowen](/people/tyler-cowen)

Professor of Economics at George Mason University, Director of the Mercatus Center, and host of *Conversations with Tyler*; Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute