<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Becoming an AI superpower is the... > **Becoming an AI superpower is the twenty-first-century equivalent of becoming a nuclear superpower, and the comparison understates what is at stake.** A nuclear arsenal confers deterrence, and deterrence is the ceiling of what it can do; the warheads sit in silos and submarines, and their entire value lies in never being used. Machine intelligence is used every second of every day. It designs drugs, writes and defends software, optimizes grids, runs logistics, reads medical images, trains soldiers, forecasts markets and teaches children, and every one of those uses compounds into economic and military advantage that accumulates year after year. {{Nuclear weapons deter by sitting still; artificial intelligence compounds by working, which is why an AI lead grows while a nuclear lead merely holds.}} **Source:** [[articles/Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen|Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Becoming an AI superpower is the twenty-first-century equivalent of becoming a nuclear superpower, and the comparison understates what is at stake. A nuclear arsenal confers deterrence, and deterrence is the ceiling of what it can do; the warheads sit in silos and submarines, and their entire value lies in never being used. Machine intelligence is used every second of every day. It designs drugs, writes and defends software, optimizes grids, runs logistics, reads medical images, trains soldiers, forecasts markets and teaches children, and every one of those uses compounds into economic and military advantage that accumulates year after year. Nuclear weapons deter by sitting still; artificial intelligence compounds by working, which is why an AI lead grows while a nuclear lead merely holds.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-becoming-ai-superpower-lead-merely-holds ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->