This Former DeepMind Exec Thinks the AI Arms Race Could End in Disaster
Verity Harding tells WIRED that the US government’s nationalistic attitude toward AI is evidence that a worst-case scenario is taking shape.
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A former executive from a major AI research organization argues that describing AI development as an "arms race" between superpowers is dangerous and self-fulfilling. She contends that this war-based framing emerged from a combination of genuine safety concerns, geopolitical tensions, and incentives to resist regulation, and has shifted AI policy away from international cooperation toward nationalist competition. She advocates instead for a coalition of middle-power countries to collaborate on AI development, arguing that the arms race metaphor obscures realistic possibilities and turns smaller nations into subordinate players in a binary superpower competition.
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