Article starts off by explaining that there's no race because China is trying to actually do ai robotics while the usa is trying to do agi and make oligarchs rich. So therefore it's a lie that we are in an arms race

In reality, that's dumb as hell, you can try to do all of robotics, agi, cyber and bioweapons, all at once, in addition to making oligarchs rich. Both countries are doing all of the above, but the point is that some of these things have extreme national defense overtones. If all your software is getting hacked all the time, you have no choice but to use AI to protect and debug those systems. But there are many areas where AI will dramatically change the landscape of war: intelligence, pharma, robotics, etc. we don't need AGI to make those breakthroughs