Capability concentrated inside a single AI project, without broad external deployment, can be strategically decisive.

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rebutsAI as Normal Technology: An alternative to the vision of AI as a potential superintelligence, Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor
We see both benefits and risks as arising primarily from AI deployment rather than from development
groundsSuperintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Nick Bostrom
<span id="page-100-2"></span>If the frontrunner is an AI system, it could have attributes that make it easier for it to expand its capabilities while reducing the rate of diffusion.
groundsSuperintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Nick Bostrom
An AI system, however, might avoid some of these scale diseconomies, since the AI's modules (in contrast to human workers) need not have individual preferences that diverge from those of the system as a whole.