The “Monitoring” subsection. Bostrom makes good points about why state actors would be likely to seek to monopolize AGI development, if they took it to be a threat to their power monopolies. I hadn’t given the possibility sufficient consideration until this point. These actors do seem disinterested so far, but (as Bostrom points out) that might well be a pretense, and even if not it doesn’t mean they’ll remain so for too long to matter.
The “Monitoring” subsection. Bostrom makes good points about why state actors would be likely to seek to monopolize AGI development, if they took it to be a threat to their power monopolies. I hadn’t given the possibility sufficient consideration until this point. These actors do seem disinterested so far, but (as Bostrom points out) that might well be a pretense, and even if not it doesn’t mean they’ll remain so for too long to matter.