The way I see it:
- AGI is inevitable given enough time, assuming we don't destroy ourselves some other way first.
- It has the capacity to solve literally all our problems and make life on Earth as close to utopia as possible.
- That same capacity, however, also enables it to end the human race - either intentionally or as a byproduct of misalignment.
- If the "West" doesn't build it first, then China will. There's no second place in this race.
- Even if all nation-states somehow agreed to stop its development, a rogue underground group would do it - or possibly some random dude in his mom's basement.
I genuinely see no solution to this. I can only hope things turn out well, or at the very least that it doesn't happen during my lifetime. The genie isn't going back into the bottle.