[thrower123]

Startup and capital costs for a nuke program are considerably higher, and it is a lot harder to hide that you are building the massive facilities needed to process the raw materials and manufacture nuclear weapons. Not to mention needing to come up with a viable delivery system.

AI is nothing like that. It's just software. Once it is out there, it is going to be copied, and the resources involved are minuscule.

International arms control treaties haven't historically been worth the paper they are printed on, so there are probably a great many things that would be more worthwhile to direct energies towards.