Former Google DeepMind public policy chief Verity Harding warned that framing artificial intelligence development as a geopolitical arms race between the United States and China risks causing a worst-case scenario of excessive government control and centralized power. This competitive framing, exacerbated by nationalist rhetoric and strict export controls, closes the door to vital international safety collaboration.
The shift from collaborative research toward intense rivalry intensified following the November 2022 launch of ChatGPT, which coincided with pandemic-era border anxieties and the war in Ukraine. Major AI laboratories leverage this narrative to consolidate influence, forcing smaller nations to align with one of the two dominant superpowers. To counter this binary dynamic, she advocates for a middle powers coalition—including Canada, France, Japan, South Korea, India, and the United Kingdom—to pool resources and talent. Without such cooperative frameworks, the capacity for global collaboration on critical issues like food security and disease eradication will inevitably wither.
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