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Sam Altman has framed American dominance in artificial intelligence as a prerequisite for global safety — a position critics say amounts to telling the world to let an American oligopoly win, or risk everyone losing.
The proposal packages competitive self-interest as strategic altruism, and the gap between those two readings is where the real policy debate lives.
The Pitch: Safety Through Supremacy The core of Altman's argument is that a US-led world order in AI produces better safety outcomes than any alternative.
The logic runs roughly as follows: American firms, operating under American norms and oversight, are better stewards of transformative technology than rival powers would be.
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