Arms race dynamics
The pattern in which each party's precautions are read by the other as a threat.
What it commits you to
An arms race is a self-reinforcing loop in which restraint is interpreted as weakness and preparation as intent. It applies directly to AI capability, and it explains why unilateral restraint repeatedly fails. The structural counterweight is not trust but entanglement: making the consequences of use shared enough that no party gains from racing alone.
Which realms lean on this
Procedure, not conviction. This is the vocabulary of constitutions, audits and the people who have to sign.
governance · 2 realms — The Contractual Court, The Ubuntu Weave.
See also
Compute governance
governanceGoverning the hardware that trains frontier systems rather than the software.
Export controls
governanceNational restrictions on shipping advanced chips and related technology across borders.
Non-proliferation
governanceKeeping a capability of catastrophic misuse away from as many actors as possible.
Global governance
governanceCoordination across states for problems no state can solve alone.