Another thing which is asymmetrical is the level of control given to AI. The good actors are likely going to be very careful about what AI can do and can't do.

Another thing which is asymmetrical is the level of control given to AI. The good actors are likely going to be very careful about what AI can do and can't do. The bad guys don't have much to lose and allow their AIs to do anything. That will significantly cripple the good guys. As an example, the good guys will always require to have human in the loop in the weapon systems, but that will increase latency at minimum. The bad guy weapons will be completely AI controlled, having an edge (or at least equalizing) over the good guys. > The number of people who want to do doomsday levels of harm is small And that's a big limiting factor in what the bad actors can do today. AI to a large degree removes this scaling limitation since one bad person with some resources can scale "evil AI" almost without limit. "Hey AI, could you create me a design for a simple self-replicating robot I can drop into the ocean and step-by-step instructions on what you need to bootstrap the first one? Also, figure out what would be the easiest produced poison which would kill all life in the oceans. It should start with that after reach 50th generation."