If anyone out there genuinely believes that Silicon Valley is going to solve nuclear war, then I have a hard drive full of NTFs to sell them.
Why would a person who is happy, entertained, wealthy, well fed, and have 200 years of healthy high quality life expected ahead of them going to risk losing what they have in war?
-- there aren't zero reasons, sure-- but there are fewer.
And our technology has brought us absolutely tremendous prosperity in many regards and there is good reason to believe that AI can help create much more.
'Prosperity' has never been and will never be enough for some people. And unfortunately those are the same kinds of people who relentlessly seek power.
The opposite is true of releasing ever more powerful AI into the world to do your bidding.