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There are exceptionally few less democratic countries that are functional in a manner such that they can take great advantage of the AI potential, much less execute in some sort of super fast manner compared to the democratic nations. You can count those less democratic nations on one hand.

It's overwhelmingly the case that affluence and national wealth goes hand in hand with greater democracy, there is a tight correlation (and of course there are exceptions). All you need to do is look at the top ~50 nations in terms of GDP per capita or median wealth per adult, then look at the bottom 50.

Less democratic nations will be left even further behind, as the richer democratic nations race ahead as they have been doing for most of the post WW2 era. The richer democratic nations will have the resources to make the required enormous investments. The more malevolent less democratic nations will of course make use of good-enough AI to do malicious things, not much about that will change. Their power position won't fundamentally change however.