You can only keep a genie bottled up for so long, and if you don't rub the lamp, your adversaries will.
With something as potentially destabilizing as AGI, realpolitik will convince individual nations to put aside concerns like IP and copyright out of FOMO.
The same thing happened with nuclear bombs: it's much easier to be South Africa choosing to dispose of them if you end up not needing them, than to be North Korea or Iran trying to join the join the club late.
The real problem is that the gains from any successes will be hoarded by the people who acquired them by breaking the law.
With something as potentially destabilizing as AGI, realpolitik will convince individual nations to put aside concerns like IP and copyright out of FOMO.
The same thing happened with nuclear bombs: it's much easier to be South Africa choosing to dispose of them if you end up not needing them, than to be North Korea or Iran trying to join the join the club late.
The real problem is that the gains from any successes will be hoarded by the people who acquired them by breaking the law.