I'm very cognizant of the risks, but the biggest risk seems to me that wealthy people hold it back to get an uncrossable political-economic moat in order to permanently secure their own position.
exactly.
Specifically China. They've said for years, they want to be the global AI leader.
They have more data than anyone.
Now that they know LLMs work as good as they do, they are going all in.
They achieve AGI first, that's bad. Communist AGI is a greater existential risk than us creating AGI.
We must create it first so we can use it to harden our systems.
