0... at a mechanical level AI is literally just auto-complete

The bigger concern is the asymmetry it gives to bad people, and the fact it introduces a new war-fighting domain beyond what exists already in aerospace and cyber.

Thucydides Trap comes up in the context of US/China often, power projection in the pacific, trade, etc... but neither side can lose the race to techno-singularity because that's a winner takes all bet.

Take the "Iran making a nuke in the next 2 weeks" and update it to China fearing "The US is just weeks away from AI singularity".

Given that one country reaching AI Singularity before others is winner take all thing, the game theory gets messy in order to prevent it.