Comment by Niall Ferguson

So when Mustafa Suleiman says we need to have some kind of international agreement, some kind of framework, I think he knows that this ain't happening and it's certainly not happening fast enough. [...] Well, I mean, the Cold War analogy is helpful here because we didn't have World War Three. And in the end, the United States and Soviet Union didn't use their vast nuclear arsenals against one another. [...] The thing about the Cold War was that there really weren't that many nuclear powers. Nuclear non-proliferation really worked. The thing that worries me about A.I. is that it is spreading rapidly, not only among states but amongst non-state actors, including criminals.