Why can’t the AI race simply slow down or stop?
Sky News technology correspondent Rowland Manthorpe examines the economics driving frontier AI and the growing competition between the US and China.
Using Prozac and generic drugs as an analogy, he explains why AI companies may feel trapped in a race they cannot afford to leave.
Chapters
00:00 – 01:22 What Prozac reveals about AI economics
01:24 – 01:55 Why frontier AI companies have to keep pushing
01:56 – 03:35 How cutting-edge AI becomes a commodity
03:36 – 04:16 The safety problem at the AI frontier
04:17 – 04:36 Trump, China and the AI arms race
04:36 – 05:36 How open models fuel AI competition
05:38 – 06:30 Why no one can afford to leave the race
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