Your title is overstating your case. If putting AI development under the complete control of the government is a crippling handicap, what do you think China will be doing? China, the country where tech companies like Tencent are 10% commissars? The decision would stifle innovation, but not so much that a nation of plagiarists are going to take the lead.
China's government wants things to be better for Chinese people, America's government (for the next month and a half) wants things to be worse for white people.
Your title is overstating your case. If putting AI development under the complete control of the government is a crippling handicap, what do you think China will be doing? China, the country where tech companies like Tencent are 10% commissars? The decision would stifle innovation, but not so much that a nation of plagiarists are going to take the lead.
China's government wants things to be better for Chinese people, America's government (for the next month and a half) wants things to be worse for white people.