While I completely agree with you, that is the one thing that could change with just one thing going right for one of all the groups that work on just that problem.

It’s what happens after that that’s really scary, probably. Perhaps we all go into some utopian AI driven future, but I highly doubt that’s even possible.

Part history, part cultural differences. It would take quite the write-up to get into those two in relation to Russia, but that’s the short answer.