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The speaker argues that countries losing the AI race may have incentives to initiate conflict before their power declines further.
Thomas Larsen · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sept 2026
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“And so sort of they're in this classic situation where they're losing power.”
“And so it's like in their incentives to sort of have a conflict happen sooner rather than later before they've lost all of their power. And this is like, you know, ripe for conflict,”
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