Agreed. And his doom words have set a 1000 mouths in the Pentagon/Whitehall/August 1st Building/Kremlin salivating with excitement.

Take China, for example. Look at any recent ML conference, and see the fraction of articles majority-authored from Chinese universities and labs. Do you think they'll slow things down anytime soon? I don't think so!

It's a global arms race, and we're just spectators.

Does this matter vs actual capabilities?

Does the Kremlin being excited about a tech mean anything of the tech doesn’t deliver?