{"claim_id": "ai-race-isnt-real-001", "claim": "Argues that the AI race frame is descriptively flawed and normatively dangerous: AI competition has no finish line, knowledge diffusion weakens durable first-mover advantages, and race dynamics can erode safety, destabilize deterrence, and narrow the set of available policy tools.", "paper_id": "ai-race-isnt-real", "paper_title": "The AI Race Isn’t Real", "claim_type": "core_thesis", "evidence_quote": "Abstract: Argues that the AI race frame is descriptively flawed and normatively dangerous: AI competition has no finish line, knowledge diffusion weakens durable first-mover advantages, and race dynamics can erode safety, destabilize deterrence, and narrow the set of available policy tools.", "evidence_page": null, "evidence_span": "Abstract: Argues that the AI race frame is descriptively flawed and normatively dangerous: AI competition has no finish line, knowledge diffusion weakens durable first-mover advantages, and race dynamics can erode safety, destabilize deterrence, and narrow the set of available policy tools.", "source_text_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ai-race-isnt-real/fulltext_clean.txt", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ai-race-isnt-real/#claim-001", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel & Matthew Tokson, The AI Race Isn’t Real, Lawfare (2026).", "topics": [], "secondary_topics": [], "human_reviewed": false, "confidence": "machine-linked", "limitations": "Machine-linked claim. Use the evidence quote and PDF before treating it as a quotation or as a complete statement of the paper's position."}