A GAME OF CHICKENBut as leading AI scholars have been making clear all week, nothing about AI, which has advanced by leaps and bounds just in a few months, is stable. A more apt metaphor may be the one used by Thomas Schelling, a titan of nuclear strategy and winner of the Nobel Prize for his work in game theory.As the Cold War advanced, Schelling imagined a situation in which two adversaries find themselves “in a room full of gasoline,” each holding matches. Neither can credibly threaten to strike his match, since the conflagration would kill them both. But each can,…


