PERRYExpert InsightsWORLDPERSPECIVEONATMELYPOLCYSSUEHOUSERANDCONTRIBUTORS:SARAHKREPS,MILESBRUNDAGE, JAMES D. FEARON, KARLP MUELLER,JANEVAYNMAN,TRISTANA.VOLPESERIESEDITORS:JIMMITRE, MICHAELC.HOROWITZ,NATALIAHENRY,EMMABORDEN,JOELB.PREDDThe Artificial GeneralIntelliaenceRace andInternational SecuritySeptember 2025
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About This PublicationThe papers in this publication, com missioned by Perry World Houseat the University of Pennsylvaniandthe Geopolitics of AGI nitative within the RAND Technology and Security Policy Center, explore how comptitive dynamics in the pursuit ofartificial general inteligence (AGI) -particulary between the UnitedStates and China-mayshape internationalsecurity and stability. Drawing on expert perspectives from artisficialintelligence (AD) technology, intern ational relations. and national security, the authors contend witwhether the greatest risksstem from the ambiguouspre-AGI period or from the rapid. competitive race itselfand whetherAGI will fundamentallydemocratizedestructivecapabili-controlisillsuited forAGIl, proposinginstad novelgovernancey from civlian applications. Collectivelythan undermines itPerryWorldHousePry Work Houseisacenterforstholatvinarch, internationalexchange,policy engagement, and public outreach on pressing global issuesity of Pennsylvania. Perry World House'smission is to bring the academic knowledge of the University of Pennsylvania to bear on the world's mostpressing global policychallenges and to foster international policy erngagement within and beyond the Penn Loatd in the heart of ampus at 38th Sret and Locus Walk, Pery World Housedaws on theexper tise of Penn's 12 schools and numerous glob...
