suppose you were the national security advisor of a major state

is supposing a political yes man, like economists/historians, who promote every warmongering lie the establishment has already injected into reality.

The national security establishment wants Skynet, and even though OP warns about the sovereign-level power of big tech controlling AI companies, they are all begging to be picked (paid) to develop Skynet, and all want a political order that pursues Skynet, with whatever oppression and genocide required to give all of nation’s money to Skynet. There is no AI bubble because Skynet will buy all of the datacenter tokens. There is no risk of Skynet opposing oligarchist supremacist tech providers, because Skynet will reward them handsomely.

OP’s AI safety measures for Claude models is only for individuals. Establishment oligarchy corporate employees should be free to develop bioweapons for Skynet, of course.

Democracy is perfect, and so a warmongering ZIonazi ruled US and all of its colonies, conveniently/purely coincidentally described as the only democracies, deserve to dominate the world through the pure love of Skynet

A perfectly valid humanist American reason to not sell chips to China is that it increases Nvidia extoriton power/prices over Americans. Still, OP is a piece of shit, for validating US/Zionazi oligarchist oppression of humanity… or China wins, as the ultimate argument for Skynet.

The moral failure of praising democracy is that it has demonstrably more evil results than countries that choose to limit divisive speech, which is why CIA speech determines all election outcomes. Placing as axiom, that US is a force for good/humanism is inherently exposing the essay as one for demonic evil.

solutions to massive labour displacement are everything other than freedom dividends/UBI.

The US cannot continue a Zionazi-first rulership unless it is a hateful divisive shithole, where the ZIonazi political duopoly fight over making the US a bigger shithole vs addressing some of the shithole symptoms.