Historically the much bigger risk is new technology ending up fully controlled by a single country. Much of the history of the world's revolutions can be chalk

Historically the much bigger risk is new technology ending up fully controlled by a single country. Much of the history of the world's revolutions can be chalked up to that. Bronze weapons, horsemanship, chariots, gunpowder, ship-building, castles, siege tech, engines, tanks, submarines, warplanes. Each of those catalyzed at least a new regional power and in many cases a new world power. Those transitions were generally quite deadly and unpleasant to live through.