What he meant by "will win AI race" is as follows:
a. Automation of jobs resulting in decrease of living standards for the middle class.
b. Implementing systemic surveillance undermining citizen's rights to privacy, to dissent politically, and expose corporate wrongdoing.
c. Implementing 'social score' system that encompasses all aspects of individual activities that traditionally were off limits, finding further ways to penalize dissent.
Why would anyone want to win these stupdi prizes?
"[The Japanese people] are so crafty in their hearts that nobody can understand them. Whence it is said that they have three hearts: a false one in their mouths for all the world to see, another within their breasts only for their friends, and the third in the depths of their hearts, reserved for themselves alone and never manifested to anybody."
Unfortunately, this quote that describes medieval Japan will soon have to be applicable to everyone under AI yoke. Only, there won't be private conversations in the kitchen with your family, because microphones are everywhere in every device.