Remember the "Millennium Scare"? The Kovid Kuarantine with its footstep stickers in stores? Now it's AI

"AI safety and the geopolitical AI race are often discussed as if they were separate issues. They are not." 

China is why America must win the AI race - Dimitris Eleas   . . . "The issue with AI is that you can’t reverse it now or put it back in the box. And the problem is not what American AI companies will do; I believe that when bitter rivals agree on the need for restraint, this will happen. But such responsible restraint cannot be considered in isolation from what China is willing to do. Can the West ignore the rise of China? (A population of 1.4 billion, rare earth minerals of 44 million tons, exports of $3.77 trillion, government debt 94% of GDP, etc.) The Chinese do everything they can to beat America.

The Communist Party governs through a centralized political system capable of directing enormous economic resources toward this new battlefield. Whatever one thinks of that system of directed capitalism, its ambitions in Artificial Intelligence -- or in space, where China has also made major advances -- cannot simply be wished away. " . . .

Dimitris Eleas is a New York City–based political scientist, writer, and independent researcher focused on international relations and political philosophy. His letters have appeared in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.

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. . . "Human judgment: The hard part is weighing the evidence and gaming out what happens when we react without thinking through the consequences. When politicians stump for regulation, the question is whether they mean American regulation that leaves the U.S. in a worse position if something goes wrong while doing nothing to stop the actual global risk. When someone says we need to protect open-weight AI, the question is how we keep it free and open without giving any bad actor with enough computing power the means to build a superintelligence. And when someone says America simply needs to plow ahead and win the race, the question is what “winning” actually means. Because getting there first could change the balance of power, but getting there at all could be a mistake none of us come back from."

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