It might just not matter what Tao and everyone of them thinks if the people in charge of the budget think otherwise.

If we don't come to a global agreement (of course only the top 10 gdp countries, lets ignore all the 3th world which we done for ages anyway) on how to create/spend money for this type of things, we will get in problems.

And even if the winners of this (ai companies/hyperscalers) will start 'gifting' universitys and budgets, thats not the solution.