In practice, large-scale purchases of GPUs and memory, buying up the best AI labs, and poaching top researchers are a powerful tool for eliminating competitors, especially small and medium-sized players.
In part, this destruction of competitors is not direct, but through economic and technological strangulation. OpenAI and Microsoft do not have to want to harm others - it is enough for them to maximize their progress, and the market itself will exclude the weak. The goal is that the future of AI is determined by 2-3 corporations, not a community of scientists, startups and public organizations.

The main threat is not from AI as a technology, but from the one who owns it.
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No
In 1994, the USA, England, France, and Russia concluded an agreement to cease the production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons. China did not sign the agreement but committed to comply with it. Israel also did not sign the agreement but stopped producing nuclear weapons in 2004, retaining the right to resume production if necessary. India, Pakistan, and North Korea, of course, did not sign the agreement. This agreement is perpetual, and its provisions came into effect in 1997.

Plutonium-based nuclear weapons have a shelf life of 18 years. 1997 18 years = 2015. Also, striking military targets, rather than cities, is the priority of a nuclear attack.
WHY THE US ELITE IS NOT AFRAID OF A NUCLEAR WAR WITH RUSSIA. I'M TALKING ABOUT RUSSIA AND THE USA.
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A speculator does not break the law and pays taxes
If you remove the stock market mechanisms, you'll have to think about giving something in return. And officials don't like to work. Moreover, taxes come from the stock market.

The justification of the stock exchange is a very good mechanism in terms of fairness. Money flows there from the foolish to the smart, from the greedy to the moderate, from the cowardly to the resilient, from the nervous to the patient.
What is the use of the exchange. Part Two
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Hydrogen
Despite all the hype around electric cars, they will not be able to replace cars with an internal combustion engine.

Electric cars are an innovation of 1832, not something breakthrough
You will be very surprised! But the first electric cars appeared more than 100 years ago. Look what they were like
Electric cars — the future or deception?
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