For a few years after WW II, the USA was the only country in the world with nuclear weapons, instead of taking over other countries using our nuclear weapons to coerce other countries into submission, we rebuilt other countries and lowered our trade barriers allowing other devasted countries to rebuild their industries
Fast forward to today, if China was the only country in the world with advanced AI systems, do you think they would be so benevolent??
The only possible way to defend ourselves from advanced AI systems from other countries is have our own AI advanced systems, otherwise we are toast.
If anything, we should speed up our AI development and maintain our superiority by continuing to develop advanced AI systems.
I totally accept that we have no choice but to stay ahead of China.
My point is we are damned if we do and damned quicker if we don’t.
Human nature what it is, this is a bigger threat than nuclear ever was. Not just from the threat of autonomous killer robots, drones or other military weapons, but from accelerating the unraveling of human society.