The speaker believes that historically, competition to control AGI or superintelligence has been a major driver of the existing race and has had harmful effects.

“so I'm going to race towards that. And I think historically that's...”

“clearly that's been a big driver of you know the existing race and i think that's that's been pretty bad and so i'm i'm actually pretty worried about that as as one of the negative impacts of ai 27 uh that was one one of the reasons to feel a little bit better about the second project ai 2040 plan a was that you know it was actually like if that gets hyperstitched i think we'll be pretty happy um and so yeah so like that one you know yes it would be nice if we hyperstitched i really don't know how big the effect”