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by p-e-w 203 days ago
When US companies were still the only game in town. Given that AI progress is now driven by international competition across mutually hostile jurisdictions, there is absolutely no chance of putting the genie back into the bottle anymore.
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The same could be said about nuclear weapons right and yet we achieved stability.
The difference is that states don’t benefit from using nuclear weapons, only from having them. But they definitely benefit from using AI.
We kinda didn't. There are undeclared nuclear states on the planet right now.