Derek Thompson
Some thoughts, welcoming feedback: 1. If the frontier labs feel obligated to build something they think is dangerous because China is going to build it anyway, we'd better be really sure that China is going to build it anyway. Like, really, really, really sure. Are we? Are we actually sure? The CCP wants to build an out-of-control, recursively self-improving model bc its neurotically, control-obsessed government thinks this is a policy worth pursing? We're 100% sure about that? 2. At the very least, we know that Chinese models distill American models to keep up with the frontier. So, any slowdown by the US seems like it would mechanically and automatically slow the ability of China to distill its way to progress. If we're afraid of the rate of progress, isn't that a good thing?
Alyssa Farah Griffin
The AI warnings coming out in the last 24 hours are deadly serious. But any efforts to slow the pace of development & implement guardrails have to be global. It’s meaningless for the US to self-regulate when China continues advancing.