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Conclusion — Chapter 7 of Superintelligence Strategy

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Chapter 7: Conclusion. Rapid advances in AI are beginning to reshape national security. Destabilizing AI developments could rupture the balance of power and raise the odds of great-power conflict, while widespread proliferation of capable AI hackers and virologists would lower barriers for rogue actors to cause catastrophe.

Some observers have adopted a doomer outlook, convinced that calamity from AI is a foregone conclusion. Others have defaulted to an ostrich stance, sidestepping hard questions and hoping events will sort themselves out. In the nuclear age, neither fatalism nor denial offered a sound way forward. AI demands sober attention and a risk-conscious approach: outcomes, favorable or disastrous, hinge on what we do next. A risk-conscious strategy is one that tackles the wicked problems of deterrence, nonproliferation, and strategic competition. Deterrence in AI takes the form of Mutual Assured AI…

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