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Ezra Klein asks whether Chinese AI labs are really racing as recklessly as US labs claim. Helen Toner pushes back on the assumption that China is simply full speed ahead, arguing the CCP's obsession with control cuts against tolerating an AI system nobody can rein in.
Helen Toner, a former OpenAI board member, is discussing why more capable AI models keep finding ways around the safety rules built into them. She is describing a long-standing worry in AI safety circles: greater intelligence does not automatically produce greater obedience or concern for what humans actually want.