The word "risk" connotes a small chance of something bad suddenly happening, but slow steady progress towards losing the future is just as worrisome.

This has me thinking: which organisations have the biggest vested interests in slowing progress towards machine intelligence in the English-speaking world?

I figure it has got to be the American and Chinese governments.

The NSA did manage to delay the commercial adoption of cryptography a little - by identifying it as a "weapon". We may see the same kind of strategy used with machine intelligence. We are certainly seeing intelligent machines being identified as weapons - though the source doesn't appear to be the government - though probably nobody would believe such propaganda if they thought it came from the government.