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A recurring theme is lack of coordinated international effort—the danger of a race to develop superintelligence without universal safeguards. While some nations, like China, openly discuss global cooperation, others, notably the US, seem more accelerationist—pursuing technological dominance regardless of safety concerns. The risk is that unsupervised, uncontrolled AI growth could lead to catastrophic consequences, magnified by exponentially decreasing costs of AI training.