US government is working overtime to make sure legacy technologies stay around while the rest of the world is investing into the future.
It also had the support of a lot of the population of the areas it controlled and at least toleration by the majority. Most of its colonial civil service and military were people fro the colonies.
"Rest of the world"? Europe isn't even a player in the AI race. China might be better placed, but they also lag the US in terms of model development and capital deployed. They've been catching up, but that's not the same as "[American will] be in a similar place to Canada at best". That would require a lot of things to go right for China and/or a lot of things to go wrong for the US.
>"Rest of the world"? Europe isn't even a player in the AI race.
I think the legacy technology he is referring to is the more about the electrical generation method rather than the AI use of that electricity.
AI will not make it easier to build a house, to harvest a corn field, to assemble a car. AI will not improve weather forecasting accuracy- this is already pretty much 99.999% solved. So AI will not improve standards of living.
All this to conclude that China’s standards of living will improve while America’s will stagnate (or worse)
But sure, go ahead and enjoy those AI videos-some of them are even funny.