Chapter Five. Code Red.
The Race Nobody Chose to Run
The most dangerous part of the artificial intelligence race is that nobody fired the
starting gun. Competitive pressure doesn't require a villain... it just
requires a structure where slowing down costs more than speeding up.
On December 21, twenty twenty-two, a senior executive at Google sent a message to
company leadership that could be summarized in two words: we're
behind.
The occasion was ChatGPT, which had launched three weeks earlie