[inigyou]

Oh no! A group of people doing useful and good things to increase their reputation! That's terrible!

But seriously, if it works so well, why don't we do it too?

[WarmWash]

Because the US is a democracy and there is blowback for pissing off the public. So allocating hundred of billions of taxpayer money to AI would be enormously unpopular. We have private markets that can spend their money however they chose.

China just has the state with one leader than thats it.

[inigyou]

But the US did allocate hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to AI...