Perspective Stop calling artificial intelligence research an 'arms race'

It's in books, think tank pieces and government documents. All this to capture the fear that another country might develop AI more powerful than our own. But calling the AI competition an "arms race" is both wrong and dangerous. It suggests AI development is winner-take-all, in that two isolated national AI sectors struggle for total domination, leading to policies that cut off valuable interconnection. Simultaneously, it misrepresents AI research more generally by implying that this varied field is a single technology, almost inevitably focusing too heavily on AI's military applications.