I will agree that the free market has really shined here as far as product development is concerned. I have a hard time believing any government effort short of

I will agree that the free market has really shined here as far as product development is concerned. I have a hard time believing any government effort short of a war-time incentive would have produced anywhere near the same results. That said, I think we're also going to see exactly where capitalism always fails - the negative externalities. If AI goes off the rails and ends up deliberately or incidentally wiping us off the globe, it's likely to be because of this relatively unregulated space race.