Wright Warns US China AI Arms Race Could Trigger Preemptive Strikes

What was said

"If you're racing towards superintelligence and there's these two superpowers, there comes a time when one of them is strongly incentivized to derail the leader's AI effort. And that may include things like bombing data centers or aggressive cyberattacks."

Drawing from a superintelligence strategy paper co-authored by Dan Hendricks and Eric Schmidt, Wright highlights that as nations approach superintelligence, the trailing power faces strong incentives to physically attack the leader's infrastructure. He suggests this inherent destabilization dynamic makes the current headlong race toward AGI potentially more dangerous than the technology itself.