Sean Goedecke has some good insights into where this "build faster to stop other models killing everyone" attitude comes from:
https://www.seangoedecke.com/they-really-do-think-ai-might-k...
It's well worth the read.
https://www.seangoedecke.com/they-really-do-think-ai-might-k...
It's well worth the read.
I'm familiar with the existential risk thinking.
The the flaw in that idea that they can avert disaster by building faster is they're likely just racing faster towards more plausible non-extinction disasters. Stuff like Capitalism x AGI totally crushing the economic prospects of nearly all people, AGI-powered totalitarianism, etc.