You can say that none of this represents China being concerned for existential risk, and you’d be right. You can say that the primary motivation is the ideological purity of China and any information circulating in China, and you’d be right again. I still say that this reveals a situation in which China has its own reasons to want to slow down AI, in addition to the fact that China is losing the economic competition, and that their primary concern is the wrong AI would be bad rather than them hoping for something actively good.
I think it’s plausible that the person who writes that policy cares a lot about existential risk but needs to make ideological arguments to get his policy broad support within the CCP.
I think it’s plausible that the person who writes that policy cares a lot about existential risk but needs to make ideological arguments to get his policy broad support within the CCP.