Thanks for this thoughtful article. Your metaphor of China as a mirror of US anxieties and fears, helping gin up military contacts and loose regulations, while ignoring reality over there, resonates. The cooperation we had so recently was much more beneficial to both “sides” and to the world.
China has the correct approach. I have taught students in China and on line for over ten years, and they currently use AI only as tools, not as a replacement for critical thinking. Regarding data centers, I have been told by parents and I think there has been some reporting, that China now generates so much clean energy that they have a surplus on their grid, and the surplus is enough to power AI I think yesterday China announced a new policy that companies could not lay off employees due to AI replacement as well. Interesting times....
Thoughtful article, thank you for sharing it and the underlying research.
Related: Why would the PRC want to "race" towards AGI/ASI which would risk a loss of control scenario, and directly threaten the ongoing viability of the government?
Have a read of these pieces which discusses that same issue from a more technical and policy perspective. Maybe helpful in your upcoming paper mentioned.
China doesn't have to understand that they're in a race for it to be a race. If they understood the gravity of the situation a year ago, they'd have had a legitimate chance of catching up in the next year or so. A strategy of "let's wait until they realize how important it is" is not sound. That of course doesn't mean that we should attempt to win the race at all costs. But China not treating the race the same as we do is not a justification to allow ourselves to slow down.
Thanks for this thoughtful article. Your metaphor of China as a mirror of US anxieties and fears, helping gin up military contacts and loose regulations, while ignoring reality over there, resonates. The cooperation we had so recently was much more beneficial to both “sides” and to the world.
China has the correct approach. I have taught students in China and on line for over ten years, and they currently use AI only as tools, not as a replacement for critical thinking. Regarding data centers, I have been told by parents and I think there has been some reporting, that China now generates so much clean energy that they have a surplus on their grid, and the surplus is enough to power AI I think yesterday China announced a new policy that companies could not lay off employees due to AI replacement as well. Interesting times....
Thoughtful article, thank you for sharing it and the underlying research.
Related: Why would the PRC want to "race" towards AGI/ASI which would risk a loss of control scenario, and directly threaten the ongoing viability of the government?
I've not heard a good case for that...
Have a read of these pieces which discusses that same issue from a more technical and policy perspective. Maybe helpful in your upcoming paper mentioned.
https://centerforchinaanalysis.substack.com/p/misdiagnosing-the-uschina-ai-race
https://www.digitalistpapers.com/vol2/graylin
China doesn't have to understand that they're in a race for it to be a race. If they understood the gravity of the situation a year ago, they'd have had a legitimate chance of catching up in the next year or so. A strategy of "let's wait until they realize how important it is" is not sound. That of course doesn't mean that we should attempt to win the race at all costs. But China not treating the race the same as we do is not a justification to allow ourselves to slow down.