Victory By Any Means

A short video about AI existential risk and the arms-race dynamics that push competitors to pursue increasingly dangerous capabilities in order to avoid losing to one another.

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The central danger is not necessarily that every participant ignores the risks, but that each believes restraint will hand victory to a less cautious rival. “Victory by any means” becomes a coordination failure: competitive pressure makes individually understandable choices add up to catastrophic collective risk.