[logicchains]

But presumably if other companies in the US got as powerful as Facebook/Google, they'd just be broken up too, for the same reasons, no? And if they weren't that big/powerful, they'd lack the economies of scale to do what Google and Facebook are doing now. So any other country with giant technology companies (which in practice right now is just China) would have an advantage.

[Apocryphon]

There are industry consortiums and partnerships and the like. Surely some of these companies could find a way to work together. And surely the U.S. with the NSA could initiate its own Manhattan Project for A.I.