Yuval: “People who single out China, Russia, or a post-democratic United States as their main source for totalitarian nightmares misunderstand the danger of AI. In fact, Chinese, Russians, Americans, and all other humans are together threatened by the totalitarian potential of nonhuman intelligence"

Quote from Yuval Noah Harrari's latest book, Nexus.

He makes an interesting point. Most AIs powerful enough to create a totalitarian nightmare would also be powerful enough to escape the power of the would-be human totalitarian dictator.

So existing totalitarians shouldn't be so keen on AI.

First rule of being a dictator: don't add competitors to your country.