AI arms-race narrative misleads policy, says researcher: cooperation, not competition, is the only path
GregCook2011 · x · 2026-09-15
In a conversation with Nate B Jones, Alexander Graylin argues the biggest policy misconception is the arms-race framing of AI: a finish line, one winner, winner-takes-all — none of which is true. Like electricity, nobody 'wins' AI; it becomes software everywhere, already small enough to run on a Mac Studio and soon a laptop. The real threat is not state-on-state AGI but non-state actors with small, specialized models — chem/bio models on a laptop. Cooperation, not competition, is the only way to manage bad-actor risk.
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