Comment by Will MacAskill

Another possibility, if there's a large enough intelligence explosion, is that the first project to build AGI organically becomes a de facto world government. This possibility is worth taking pretty seriously, given the stakes and the fact that an intelligence explosion is fairly likely. [...] If there's a large enough intelligence explosion, then AGI would quickly lead to superintelligence ("ASI"). This would give the project such a huge capabilities advantage over the rest of the world that — unless quickly checked by other actors — they could effectively achieve a decisive strategic advantage sufficient to enable it to achieve complete world domination. AI Unverifiable source (2026)