Comment by Lee Callender

The AI arms race is a Molochian game that rationally incentivizes accelerated advancement of AI capabilities while consequently punishing individual participants who might otherwise believe that safety and alignment are necessary for a stable take off into the singularity. We need to promote cooperative mechanisms on the global scale, and work to build out safeguards and policies that can enable humanity to take collective actions to self harness such technological advancements that can easily become unstable.