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Superintelligence could enable breakthroughs in weapons research, such as developing an effective anti-ballistic missile system.
An effective anti-ballistic missile system would reduce an adversary's second-strike capability, eliminating mutual assured destruction and destabilizing global security.
The competitive gap in AI development between the United States and China has narrowed significantly.
The strategy of a US-led "Manhattan Project" for AI is no longer robust because the US cannot assume it can maintain a substantial lead over China.
AI capabilities that increase the transparency of oceans, allowing for the detection of nuclear submarines and mobile missile launchers, would be highly destabilizing to global security.
A secret "Manhattan Project" for AI is not feasible today due to satellite surveillance and the visibility of concentrating large-scale data centers and top researchers.
The three most-cited AI researchers, Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Ilya Sutskever, all believe there is a risk of losing control of a potential intelligence explosion.
The US AI industry is highly vulnerable to espionage, with a potential zero-day exploit in a tool like Slack being sufficient for a foreign power to gain visibility into major labs.
A double-digit percentage of top researchers at leading AI labs like XAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind are Chinese nationals, making them potential targets for extortion by the Chinese government.
The US and China have a shared interest in coordinating to prevent the proliferation of advanced AI chips to rogue actors.
China spends approximately $50 billion per year on increasing its domestic semiconductor manufacturing capabilities.
A Chinese invasion or blockade of Taiwan would eliminate the United States' primary advantage over China in AI, which is access to advanced compute.