Will There Be an AI Hegemon? A Mental Model for AI Power Concentration

On the Baker-Anthropic Conversation, Power Acquisition and Escape VelocityWill there be an AI hegemon, i.e. an entity that, by wielding superintelligence, acquires so much economic or political power that no rival, or coalition of rivals, can effectively constrain it? Are we about to go off-equilibrium, with the balance of power permanently skewed towards a single company or government? What makes it so plausible that some Anthropic representatives believe that there will be a single company in ...