It's the race to build artificial general intelligence that all of the US capitalists can pay for to replace all workers, hack and destroy all other anti-imperialist countries, and then have it kill and oppress all of the poors in the world forever.

I made a previous post on this topic:

There are only 2 ways the worker-capitalist contradiction can ever be solved:

• communism
• exterminism (from Peter Frase's Four Futures), where the capitalists finally fulfill their dream of automating everything and can genocide all the unneeded workers.

It's quite important we bring about revolution before option 2 becomes viable.

There's also the AI 2027 paper, which theorizes a world in which OpenAI and associates are able to create a self-improving AI for the USA by the year 2027. At that point, the AI will be able to improve its own intelligence ad infinitum until it becomes a god and can immediately defeat any and all other countries by hacking their infrastructure instantly or planning amazing color revolutions, thereby guaranteeing U.S. world domination forever.

US capitalists fear that if China can get to a comparable level of AI at the same time, then they won't be able to delete China with their own AI.