If it's just about weapons, we never left a MAD environment. More nations have nuclear weapons now than ever before. Two things have changed with the end of th

If it's just about weapons, we never left a MAD environment. More nations have nuclear weapons now than ever before. Two things have changed with the end of the Soviet Union: 1. The nations whose mutual destruction is assured are less ideologically opposed to each other and more economically interdependent, however... 2. ...lots of the cold war era nuclear weapons have been lost. Not destroyed, lost--they could have fallen into the hands of anyone. Simply building weaponized AI doesn't reverse 1.