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.
Yep.
…wondered a little bit. We keep talking about China as if they are completely breakneck, but I'm not sure China's companies are really going to be more reckless than ours are going to be. Or certainly the idea that we should just assume that and operate as if it is so doesn't seem totally reliable.
I totally agree with you. I mean, if there's one organization in the world that doesn't like the idea of loss of control, it's the Chinese Communist Party. And they are, you know, the experts in retaining control. Let me be clear: I actually don't think that Chinese AI companies are paying particularly much attention to the kinds of risks that are relevant for this conversation. So maybe the cybersecurity risks, they're paying some more attention since Anthropic released Mythos earlier this year, which is very good at hacking. But the questions around autonomy, super intelligence, losing control of AI…
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Here's another question about pacing the frontier. And maybe this is a question that's more about the American systems analogy to you don't want to piss off the Chinese Communist Party. But just what about a law where companies are liable for at least a certain set of harms, like hacking other…
