Because it's an arms race guaranteed to occur given the incentives created by our capitalist system and our competitive multipolar geopolitical reality. If you

Because it's an arms race guaranteed to occur given the incentives created by our capitalist system and our competitive multipolar geopolitical reality. If you don't get there first then an unscrupulous company will, or some entity in an authoritarian regime will, and that will be more risky even if it is delayed by 10 additional years. The counter-argument is that those 10 extra years are necessary for additional AI safety research to occur.