Canada can certainly stake out a position in its own self-protection that we should not be building superintelligence. I think it will be critical that an end to this race will actually require both the U.S. and China to realize that it's against their own self-interest to build superintelligent AI. As long as they believe that it will grant them power, they will want to pursue it, but this is not the case. AI, superintelligent, will absorb rather than grant power. If they realize this, then it is in their interest as well as everybody else's not to have not to have it developed, and that's the foundation.
