Why Governments Might Race to Build ASI Even If It Could Kill Us All

I'm not sure if it's game theoretically possible for a nation state to give up a decisive strategic edge and hence I am not confident the development of ASI can realistically ever be stopped as I believe governments will attempt to develop aligned-ASI in secret if they commercially ban it. I have been listening to Nate Soares interviews and he will often point to international cooperation on nuclear weapons. But to me nuclear weapons treaties look like failures of international cooperation. We s...