'Winning AI'
How do you "win AI", and what exactly is it you won by winning AI? Neither applies here, and the use of this phrase is a cheap rhetorical trick to avoid meaningful regulation, because of course "we" have to "win", and if you don't "win", then you necessarily "lose", and who wants to be a loser, huh? It's not the Manhattan Project The supposed race to "super intelligence"1 or whatever the fuck carries with it an implicit or explicit comparison to the Manhattan Project, one that is inherently flawed.
- ▪How do you "win AI", and what exactly is it you won by winning AI?
- ▪Neither applies here, and the use of this phrase is a cheap rhetorical trick to avoid meaningful regulation, because of course "we" have to "win", and if you don't "win", then you necessarily "lose", and who wants to be a loser, huh?
- ▪It's not the Manhattan Project The supposed race to "super intelligence"1 or whatever the fuck carries with it an implicit or explicit comparison to the Manhattan Project, one that is inherently flawed.
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| Original publisher | Netmeister |
| Canonical URL | https://www.netmeister.org/blog/winning-ai.html |
| Publication time | Fri, 02 Oct 2026 23:48:21 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-03T00:11:24.978Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-03T00:11:24.978Z |
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October 1st, 2026 "Whoever wins AI wins". What the fresh fuck does that mean? How do you "win AI", and what exactly is it you won by winning AI? I may not know what "winning AI" means, but I do know it is the wrong framing for a meaningful debate about how to handle the many risks inherent in the development of large-language models and other artificial intelligence: "Winning" implies a zero-sum game, a competition between multiple adversarial parties and with a specific goal. Neither applies here, and the use of this phrase is a cheap rhetorical trick to avoid meaningful regulation, because of course "we" have to "win", and if you don't "win", then you necessarily "lose", and who wants to be a loser, huh? Why do you hate America? It's not the Manhattan Project The supposed race to "super…
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