"I think it’s very important that democracies maintain the lead in this technology and that they’re properly equipped with resources to make sure that they can’t be dominated or pushed around by autocracies." - Dario Amodei
He just signed a deal with an incoming fascist government; his statement does not align with reality. It's about money, first and foremost.
What do we need to do in USA to upgrade to Working Democracy? How can I help?
Paywalled, so I can't get at it. But how does "maintaining a lead" translate into preventing non-democracies for using it for their non-democratic stuff, even if they get theirs a few weeks or years later? Assuming the human race continues for another hundred or more generations, delaying something by one generation in some corner of the world is not very consequential.