Hypothetically, would you rather have:

1. AI is not delayed, but the strongest AI, 10 years ahead of everyone else, is in the hands of a single very powerful multinational inter-governmental agency
2. All AI delayed by 10 years

2. Again.

If technology is power (the ability to manifest one’s inner life on the external world) checked only by other technology. Then handing monopolised control of an advanced AI to any entity, is granting the ability to shape the world in their image and to their benefit.

There’s no entity I trust that much