american capitalism has always been a huge bummer other than the defense industry, which is probably just cuz we throw more money at those problems than anyone else. the best electronics were always japanese; the best cars were always european or japanese. what would be different with AI?
if you take nation state horseshit out of the equation, the best outcome would be to share all these ideas and get as many eyes and minds on the problem as possible. for all you know, the person who creates the singularity is some dude from tanzania who's currently mining diamonds; it's definitely not gonna be some brainless nepo baby.
these people are all up their own assholes, and it's gonna sink the entirety of humanity.