> A nuclear bomb

Indeed. This could actually be what breaks America's world order.

AI can already clone major products like Photoshop and Office. Maybe not at 100% feature parity for now but at a "good-enough" surface level. That will only keep improving. Eventually we could get clones of Windows and macOS at feature parity.

Even if US lobbying/corruption tries to cripple AI to prevent that, China will instigate and accelerate it.