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“China Hawks are Manufacturing an AI Arms Race” by garrison


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This is the full text of a post from "The Obsolete Newsletter," a Substack that I write about the intersection of capitalism, geopolitics, and artificial intelligence. I’m a freelance journalist and the author of a forthcoming book called Obsolete: Power, Profit, and the Race for Machine Superintelligence. Consider subscribing to stay up to date with my work.

An influential congressional commission is calling for a militarized race to build superintelligent AI based on threadbare evidence

The US-China AI rivalry is entering a dangerous new phase.

Earlier today, the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) released its annual report, with the following as its top recommendation:

Congress establish and fund a Manhattan Project-like program dedicated to racing to and acquiring an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) capability. AGI is generally defined as systems that are as good as or better than human capabilities across all cognitive domains and [...]

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Outline:

(00:28) An influential congressional commission is calling for a militarized race to build superintelligent AI based on threadbare evidence

(03:09) What China has said about AI

(06:14) Revealing technical errors

(08:29) Conclusion

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First published:
November 20th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KPBPc7RayDPxqxdqY/china-hawks-are-manufacturing-an-ai-arms-race

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