AGI is a general-purpose technology—'AI plus anything' (health, electronics, policy, military)—which creates strong incentives to deploy it very widely, making it far harder to control like nuclear weapons because it is fundamentally easy-to-proliferate software with large potential profits.

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Gregory Smith

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AGI is a general purpose technology in that it can be like AI plus something else ... it's just very easy to proliferate software and there could be huge profits

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A New Cold War, Rise of China and Global Chaos: How AI Will Rewrite Geopolitics | Gregory SmithDecoding Geopolitics Podcast with Dominik Presl
Created: 6/18/2026, 2:32:07 PM

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