AI will have the biggest impact on who makes money and controls wealth. Before any nation-state tries to take over the world with some kind of ultra-dominant w

AI will have the biggest impact on who makes money and controls wealth. Before any nation-state tries to take over the world with some kind of ultra-dominant weapon, most large states will have to deal with their own populations, as the rich control more resources. The imaginary graph of ML technology that can be developed for destruction or defense is fraught with inter-dependent paranoid scenarios. The use of ML for the increase of human happiness is apparent and obvious. An ML arms race that invokes conflict is going to be a huge waste of a nation's ML resources. It would be much more productive to think about how ML/AI can be used to for egalitarian human prosperity (a la post-scarcity, etc).