The AI Race Is a Suicide Pact: Determinism as the Only Exit

The global AI race — driven by the United States and China — is not a competition for
technological supremacy. It is a suicide pact executed at planetary scale.

This paper presents the forensic evidence: the energy consumption, water depletion, e-waste
generation, and carbon emissions of the stochastic AI paradigm, drawn from 2026 data.

It then argues that the race is structurally incapable of self-correction because its participants are trapped in a paradigm where intelligence is assumed to require scale.

Finally, it presents ST-T1024 — a deterministic, embedded, sovereign alternative — not as a competitor in the race, but as the exit from it.