The AI Race No One Elected // AIDRAN

The prisoner's dilemma description of AI competition is not a new analytical concept, but its migration into casual public conversation marks something worth attending to. A commenter on Bluesky framed the entire situation as 'a prisoner's dilemma race for a technology that no one actually wants' — and the phrasing landed because it captures what the official vocabulary of 'strategic competition' and 'technological leadership' consistently obscures: the race's internal logic is coercive, not chosen. Nation-states are not pursuing AI supremacy because they believe it will produce good outcomes. They…

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