In some ways, this would be better if you can get universal buy-in, since there wouldn’t be a race for completion. There might be a race for alignment to particular subgroups? Which could be better or worse, depending.
Also, securing it against bringing insights and know-how back to a clandestine single-nation competitor seems like it would be very difficult. Like, if we had this kind of project being built, do I really believe there won’t be spies telling underground data centers and teams of researchers in Moscow and Washington everything it learns? And that governments will consistently put more effort into the shared project than the secret one?
In some ways, this would be better if you can get universal buy-in, since there wouldn’t be a race for completion. There might be a race for alignment to particular subgroups? Which could be better or worse, depending.
Also, securing it against bringing insights and know-how back to a clandestine single-nation competitor seems like it would be very difficult. Like, if we had this kind of project being built, do I really believe there won’t be spies telling underground data centers and teams of researchers in Moscow and Washington everything it learns? And that governments will consistently put more effort into the shared project than the secret one?
Start small, once you have an attractive umbrella working for a few projects you can take in the rest of the US, the the world