A number of the AI visions implies each individual with their own superpowers.

As long as everyone is competing, then the overall ecosystem can possibly stay in balance.

But it seems like it would be hard to keep in balance, because of the multiplicative power of an edge; if someone gets an edge, they shoot ahead of their competitors.

Also, a Hobbesian hellscape is no fun to live in as a human, even if it's game-theoretically stable… which it likely won't be.