Over the years, I’ve found only one metaphor that encapsulates the nature of what these AI power players are: empires. /…/
They justified their quest for power by the need to compete with other empires. In an arms race, all bets are off. All this ultimately served to entrench each empire’s power and to drive its expansion and progress. In the simplest terms, empires amassed extraordinary riches across space and time through imposing a colonial world order, at great expense to everyone else.
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