Another advantage of Chinese leadership in AI: while right now they have less alignment research than the West, they may be better at scaling it up at crunch time: they have more control over what companies and people work on, a bigger government, and a better track record at pulling off major projects like controlling COVID and, well, large-scale ‘social engineering’.
Another advantage of Chinese leadership in AI: while right now they have less alignment research than the West, they may be better at scaling it up at crunch time: they have more control over what companies and people work on, a bigger government, and a better track record at pulling off major projects like controlling COVID and, well, large-scale ‘social engineering’.