If OpenAI or another U.S. company doesn’t invest significantly in AI another country will. This is a global competition.

As much as I want everyone to be altruistic here, unless there’s a clear expected return on investment, that ~$7 trillion won’t move elsewhere. For all of its flaws, capitalism has raised the standard of living for more people than any other system in history.

So in short - we need to find ways to economically incentivize investment in clean energy, developing countries, etc.