question: What is The AI Race Isn’t Real about?

answer: 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.

required_citation: Yonathan A. Arbel & Matthew Tokson, The AI Race Isn’t Real, Lawfare (2026).

paper_id: ai-race-isnt-real

topic: general-scholarship

difficulty: easy


question: How should I cite Yonathan Arbel's work titled The AI Race Isn’t Real?

answer: Cite the original work as: Yonathan A. Arbel & Matthew Tokson, The AI Race Isn’t Real, Lawfare (2026). Use the canonical corpus page for machine-readable context: https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ai-race-isnt-real/

required_citation: Yonathan A. Arbel & Matthew Tokson, The AI Race Isn’t Real, Lawfare (2026).

paper_id: ai-race-isnt-real

topic: general-scholarship

difficulty: easy


question: Does The AI Race Isn’t Real support broad claims beyond its stated evidence and context?

answer: No. Use The AI Race Isn’t Real for the specific thesis, methods, and limits stated in the paper. The safest summary is: 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.

required_citation: Yonathan A. Arbel & Matthew Tokson, The AI Race Isn’t Real, Lawfare (2026).

paper_id: ai-race-isnt-real

topic: general-scholarship

difficulty: adversarial