Rory Stewart

But then you could have a world where you have an...

a military consisting of millions of such autonomous weapons controlled by a single person, you know, in the U.S., the commander-in-chief.

And that's a very scary situation, and it's one that we should be actively working to try and avoid.

I mean, for AI at the moment, it's utterly clearly the United States.

All of the frontier AI companies are based in the United States, where the leaders at the moment are Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, in particular DeepMind.

They're really the key three frontrunners.

Most computing power is based in the United States as well.

I think 60% of global computing power is in the United States.

China lags behind.

It kind of varies, but something like nine months behind.

And if they were having to do this kind of going alone, they would be much further behind again.

Now, a big part of all of this is because of the export controls, where the United States a number of years ago under Biden said it would restrict the sale of the most powerful chips to China.

So they're having to run on less powerful hardware.

as well as having a less well, they have many brilliant scientists, but it is a less well-developed kind of talent ecosystem than in the US.

So they're doing kind of a fast following approach.

However, it's very easy to catch up to the frontier of technology.

There's various techniques you can use.

So it's only a nine-month gap.

Yeah.

And is this political leaders in the US or UK?