Crazy to reflect on the three global AI competitions going on right now: - 1. US political leadership have made AI a prestige race, echoing the Space Race. It's cool and important and strategic, and they're going to Win. - 2. For Chinese leadership AI is part of economic strength, soft power and influence. Technology is shared, developing economies will be built on Chinese fundamental tech, the Chinese economy and trade relations will grow. Weakening trust in a capricious US is an easy opportunity to take advantage of. - 3. The AGI companies are racing something they think will out-think humans across the board, that they don't yet know how to control, and think might literally kill everyone. Scariest of all is that it's not at all clear to decision-makers that these three things are happening in parallel. They think they're playing the same game, but they're not.