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I agree this will slow US development but what does "win the AI race" mean? What's the finish line? If there was a finish line, say a model that met some definition of general intelligence, wouldn't other labs eventually reach it too? Does getting there 6 months sooner actually mean anything in terms of say, the 5, 20, 50, 100 year view?

This is more about having the most powerful AI company based in the US, rather than abroad. If the US pauses AI development, the rest of the world will lock in with non-US AI providers who capture the market first

Does getting there 6 months sooner actually mean anything in terms of say, the 5, 20, 50, 100 year view?

You then use the power of AGI to keep everyone else down, economically and militarily. Billions of AGI-controlled drones patrolling the Earth and enforcing your supremacy. Yes, the future is grim and dystopian.

If one thinks this is farfetched, they aren't paying attention to geopolitics.

Never mind geopolitics, how many people still believe that AGI is just around the corner and LLMs will get us there?

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